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Canonical Killing Unity For Ubuntu Linux, Will Switch To the Superior GNOME (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the changing-things dept.

Reader BrianFagioli writes: Today, the company admits that it is throwing in the towel on Unity, as well as its vision for convergence with devices like phones and tablets. Starting with Ubuntu 18.04, the wonderful GNOME will once again become the default desktop environment! "We are wrapping up an excellent quarter and an excellent year for the company, with performance in many teams and products that we can be proud of. As we head into the new fiscal year, it's appropriate to reassess each of our initiatives. I'm writing to let you know that we will end our investment in Unity8, the phone and convergence shell. We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS," says Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Ubuntu and Canonical.

7 of 386 comments (clear)

  1. 2018 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It seems 2018 will be the year of GNOME on the Linux Desktop.

    1. Re:2018 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Not on my PC i would rather install Windows 10 again!

    2. Re: 2018 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      When you say "work", do you mean "Gather up my information and sell it to the highest bidder?"

  2. Re: Wonderful? by SharpFang · · Score: 5, Funny

    > I don't want to use an archaic distro like Slackware, or a niche distro like Devuan, or a weird one like Gentoo. So recently I've been using NetBSD

    That gave me a chuckle.

    You mean you didn't want to choose between archaic, niche or weird, so you found one that is all three at once? :)

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  3. Re: Wonderful? by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 4, Funny

    But by all means, blame the OS because you're lazy...there are two whole other OS's to choose from depending on whether you're lazy and rich or lazy and poor, knock yourself out.

    Blaming systemd for everything is the "Thanks Obama" meme for Linux users.

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  4. Re: Wonderful? by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 3, Funny

    Never had any problem with systemd preventing bootup. Are you sure its systemd?

    Of course he's sure. All linux problems are directly caused by systemd now.

    Thanks, systemd!

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  5. Re: Wonderful? by ChrisMaple · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, some problems are still caused by PulseAudio.

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