Archived Ubuntu 18.04 to drop Unity, ship Gnome desktop in shift of focus (x-post v/ubuntu) (insights.ubuntu.com)
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Archived Ubuntu 18.04 to drop Unity, ship Gnome desktop in shift of focus (x-post v/ubuntu) (insights.ubuntu.com)
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[–] MRPockets [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I suspect that Canonical is seeing a relatively high number of new installs. Probably not anything that would hurt Microsoft but anecdotally, I've seen a lot of people who dislike Windows 10 enough to either stay with 7 (or even 8) indefinitely and a handful of people who have moved over to Linux (mostly Ubuntu). All of my family (save for my brother who refuses to give up 7) are on some variant of Ubuntu and I use vanilla Ubuntu.
I can't say this news makes me happy. I really like Unity 7 (not sure what to think about 8 yet) and hope 18.04 ships with Unity-like Gnome setup. Otherwise I'll probably have to move to Kubuntu as Gnome wastes an awful lot of screen space.
[–] BentAxel ago
Thanks for your response. For me it is a new frontier and one frankly I am excited about. I am only using the box as a glorified entertainment system but dammit, it wont be windoez.
[–] MRPockets [S] ago
If you are looking to use Linux (whether Ubuntu or any other distro) for your desktop, I'd highly recommend you look around at the different Desktop Environments that are available. My preference has been Unity but KDE has always been a close second. For my netbook, I use Cinnamon in Linux Mint. A rather promising one is the new Budgie desktop; Ubuntu just added the Budgie on Ubuntu project as a new official flavor.