Disingenuous article?
In a way Gnome was promoted with Ubuntu. Even as Unity is a healthy competition to Gnome, and I use Gnome Shell in Ubuntu, I can say that the target of 121 millions of users is not met, but Ubuntu itself (which is mostly based on Gnome technologies) is a big number. How big? "In fall 2011 Canonical estimated that Ubuntu holds a global usage of more than 20 million users".
I'm not here to say that is a big number or a small one, but is impressive. If we combine with users by other reasons, like Gnome on RedHat tools, Gnome in schools, or such, number is a big higher, and is a destktop environment to care about.
Gnome if failed, it did not failed as Gnome, but as distribution of drivers, like WiFi drivers, video graphic drivers, Pulse-Audio drivers, and so on. Probably the driver quality is the part that did not give optimal experience for users, but numbers are pretty hefty, by all standards.
Without wanting to open monsters, Ubuntu gives a lot of great platform defaults: automatic looking for codecs/drivers, having a Mono stack, would permit for enterprise desktops to switch some Asp.Net applications, the same happens using Java/Tomcat.
At the end probably Gnome failed, but just because there was a better competition: Android. Not on desktop, but on devices. A solution I think may be just to get Android on desktop to get all the ecosystem of VM applications.
In a way Gnome was promoted with Ubuntu. Even as Unity is a healthy competition to Gnome, and I use Gnome Shell in Ubuntu, I can say that the target of 121 millions of users is not met, but Ubuntu itself (which is mostly based on Gnome technologies) is a big number. How big? "In fall 2011 Canonical estimated that Ubuntu holds a global usage of more than 20 million users".
I'm not here to say that is a big number or a small one, but is impressive. If we combine with users by other reasons, like Gnome on RedHat tools, Gnome in schools, or such, number is a big higher, and is a destktop environment to care about.
Gnome if failed, it did not failed as Gnome, but as distribution of drivers, like WiFi drivers, video graphic drivers, Pulse-Audio drivers, and so on. Probably the driver quality is the part that did not give optimal experience for users, but numbers are pretty hefty, by all standards.
Without wanting to open monsters, Ubuntu gives a lot of great platform defaults: automatic looking for codecs/drivers, having a Mono stack, would permit for enterprise desktops to switch some Asp.Net applications, the same happens using Java/Tomcat.
At the end probably Gnome failed, but just because there was a better competition: Android. Not on desktop, but on devices. A solution I think may be just to get Android on desktop to get all the ecosystem of VM applications.
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