How would you feel if Ubuntu was the default distribution? surface working Gnome instead of Unity? THE founder Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth shocked the entire Ubuntu community with a statement when he said that the development of Unity 8 would not proceed.
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.
But it turned out that the development process of Unity 8 was slowed down by several factors. One of them was that while the new DE looked fine on mobile devices, but its desktop feel computers it wasn't that good, 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.
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.
