Ubuntu To Abandon Unity 8, Switch Back To GNOME

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu To Abandon Unity 8, Switch Back To GNOME

Canonical has announced via Mark Shuttleworth they are ending their development of the Unity 8 desktop environment and will be switching back to GNOME desktop by Ubuntu 18.04...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Dropping-Unity

[bregma]

I am forced to eat my words.

[deadite66]

wow, did we go back in time to 1st April!?

happy they are going back to gnome.

[amp3030]

I for one hope that they keep and improve Unity7 (and port it to Wayland, in case they also ditch Mir). I really can't stand GNOME, although I've tried so hard in the past. Well, if you com from GNOME to Unity, you may not notice any shortcomings, but the other way around, you'd see GNOME is pure pain in the window management and multi-tasking department.

[humbug]

I had to check the date after reading this. It really isn't the 1st.

[andre30correia]

the end of linux desktop for good, great decision after 4 four years working in something and back for something unusable like gnome

[paupav]

65 minutes ago this post was written:

http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Secure-X11-Apps-For-Unity-8

[kaprikawn]

I don't understand the surprise. They've been dumping resources into this stuff for years and have nothing to show for it to date. The decision makes all the sense in the world.

[Michael]

65 minutes ago this post was written:
http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=ne...ps-For-Unity-8

Yep after Ted Gould wrote blog post this morning.... I guess Mark kept this as a surprise to everyone.

[AdamOne]

Serves' em right.
Childish, silly and irresponsible instance of a distro.