Ubuntu abandons convergence, unity and mir, returns to gnome

The dream is over, after many years of investment of money and resources Canonical has given up in the race for convergence and has announced that it is abandoning the development of Unity to return to the desktop environment that led Ubuntu to be what it is Today, Ubuntu returns to Gnome.

Goodbye to the dream of Ubuntu convergence

After more than two years of delay with Unity 8 and convergence, it should have come with Ubuntu 14.04, Mark Shuttleworth has announced that they have thrown in the towel and put an end to a dream they have been working with for many years. Canonical had the intention to make computers, phones and tablets work with the same version of Ubuntu but finally the technical barriers have been too great for a fairly small company with limited resources.

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"I am writing to let you know that we will end our investment in Unity 8, phones and convergence" "We will change the default desktop to GNOME in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS"

It is something that many already pointed out after the long delays and the problems they were having to get Unity 8 and Mir ready, the two fundamental pieces to achieve the long-awaited convergence. Hopefully, with the move to Gnome, Wayland will be taken as graphic manager.

Mark Shuttleworth says that from now on they will focus on the desktop, the cloud and the Internet of things. This is an important step backwards that I personally think should have been done a long time ago, the Canonical convergence project was something very large and ambitious, too much for a company of its size that does not have the necessary resources. Hopefully this is a small step backwards to take several forward steps. What do you think of Canonical's decision?

Source: ubuntu