How would you feel if Ubuntu distribution had Gnome instead of Unity as the default desktop? Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth, in a statement, has shocked the entire Ubuntu community when he said the development of Unity 8 would not go ahead.
Unity 8 was Canonical's vision for the future of Ubuntu desktop. Unity 8 could be used on mobile and desktop computers, which can not be done by any other GNU / Linux interface, at least not for the time being.
However, it has been shown that the development process of Unity 8 has been slowed down by a number of factors. One of them was that while the new DE was a joy to mobile devices, but its desktop feel was not so good, not to mention that it did not work at all on some hardware.
So Mark Shuttleworth decided to stop Unity's development completely, ending its support as Ubuntu's default interface. This, of course, is more shocking than Unity 8's growth end.
What does this mean;
With the release of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, the distribution will be released with GNOME's default desktop.
"The Canonical team will help the Ubuntu GNOME team deliver an amazing GNOME experience," Mark Shuttleworth told Google+.
What happens to the default Unity 7 environment?
Mark Shuttleworth reports that Unity 7 packages can be installed from distribution repositories.
It will not be installed by default, as we have known so far. This means that you like and wish Unity should install it manually using a tool like Synaptic Package Manager.
Let's mention once again that the above changes will come with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, which will be released next April.
George is still wondering what he is doing here….
