Canonical’s long and winding quest for a unified user experience came to a sudden halt on Wednesday, as founder Mark Shuttleworth announced the firm’s decision to stop investing in its struggling Unity8 shell and revert to Gnome for its Ubuntu 18.04 LTS desktop OS release. The Unity plan was to create a user interface that could work on various types of devices, ranging from a mobile phone to a personal computer or tablet. The project had been the subject of rampant speculation over the past couple of years, as public updates were scarce.
I really thought this was a wrong move in the first place. Much like Windows 8 a hope for cross platform support and uniformity in one OS. It just doesn't work that way. Maybe now Ubuntu can get back to functioning as a decent desktop OS? Certainly Ubuntu lost a lot of users to Mint and other distro's. Wouldn't be surprised if many Ubuntu users were Gnome users not Unity. I myself never liked Unity or could get used to it.
Shuttleworth Gives Up Hope for Convergence Breakthrough
Posted by: David Jones April 7, 2017 11:38 AMCanonical’s long and winding quest for a unified user experience came to a sudden halt on Wednesday, as founder Mark Shuttleworth announced the firm’s decision to stop investing in its struggling Unity8 shell and revert to Gnome for its Ubuntu 18.04 LTS desktop OS release. The Unity plan was to create a user interface that could work on various types of devices, ranging from a mobile phone to a personal computer or tablet. The project had been the subject of rampant speculation over the past couple of years, as public updates were scarce.