Long live Unity.......... Well at least until 2021.
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical let it be known that the next release of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will have GNOME as it's default interface. They are also dropping the Convergence work on developing a desktop type environment for phones and tablets.
I do see some potential issues down the road though, they're moving from MIR to the Wayland display, a drive to replace the current X window system. The problem with that is X permeates the entire graphical aspect of Linux like it's welded to the "Linux DNA", should be interesting, I suspect some definite bugs will take some time to work out of pairing the Wayland system to the GNOME interface.
Now what's interesting from a personal standpoint is when Unity was first introduced (I use the work loosely) it was ugly and buggy, I hated it and like almost half of Ubuntu's users I moved over to Mint.
Years later I decided to give Ubuntu another shot, unfortunately I have come to really like the polished Unity interface over the old GNOME 2 look. Oh well......
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical let it be known that the next release of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will have GNOME as it's default interface. They are also dropping the Convergence work on developing a desktop type environment for phones and tablets.
I do see some potential issues down the road though, they're moving from MIR to the Wayland display, a drive to replace the current X window system. The problem with that is X permeates the entire graphical aspect of Linux like it's welded to the "Linux DNA", should be interesting, I suspect some definite bugs will take some time to work out of pairing the Wayland system to the GNOME interface.
Now what's interesting from a personal standpoint is when Unity was first introduced (I use the work loosely) it was ugly and buggy, I hated it and like almost half of Ubuntu's users I moved over to Mint.
Years later I decided to give Ubuntu another shot, unfortunately I have come to really like the polished Unity interface over the old GNOME 2 look. Oh well......