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 the Ubuntu desktop. Unity 8 could be used on cell phones and computers, which no other interface can do GNU / Linux, at least not at the moment.
But it turned out that procedure development of Unity 8 was slowed down by several factors. One of them was that while the new DE looked fine on mobile devices, it didn't feel so good on desktop computers, not to mention it didn't 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.
But it won't be pre-installedchoice, as we have known until now. This means if you like and want Unity you will need to 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.
