Thoughts on Ubuntu dropping the Unity desktop in favour of GNOME

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Mark Shuttleworth's blog post about this entitled, "Growing Ubuntu for cloud and IoT, rather than phone and convergence" can be found here: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence
For those of you who haven't heard, Mark Shuttleworth announced on 5th April that as of Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu will no longer be using their home-made Unity desktop environment but rather GNOME3. I share my thoughts on the news.



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