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

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.

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2018

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re: 2018

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re: Wonderful?

[SharpFang]

> 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? :)