Ubuntu starts the transition to gnome

We are still assimilating the news that Ubuntu is abandoning the use of Unity and convergence in favor of Gnone, while Canonical has already begun to pave the way for change and the development of the operating system already incorporates Gnome Shell as the main desktop.

Ubuntu already works on Gnome Shell

Gnome Shell will come from Ubuntu 17.10 so it is time to start doing the preparations and all the necessary tests. The daily development images have already made the leap to the inclusion of Gnome Shell to start working on what will be the basis of future versions of the Canonical operating system. Next year we will have Ubuntu 18.04 which will be the new LTS version and will include Gnome Shell, so we have to work very hard to offer users a product that lives up to what they expect from the most popular GNU / Linux distribution.

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The inclusion of Gnome Shell also means the inclusion of Wayland as a protocol and graphics server, Canonical goes step by step and for now the Gnome Shell continues to work on X.Org with the intention of making the leap to Wayland soon. Before that it is time to correctly implement the Gnome 3 desktop and debug all possible problems that may arise.

Unity 7 is still available in the repositories, although it should be the user who takes care of everything for its installation since the operating system does not make any reference to it. The current LTS Ubuntu 16.04 has support until April 2021 so it is expected that Unity 7 will continue to be maintained until at least that date.

If you want to test the first Ubuntu builds with Gnome Shell you can access them from the Ubuntu cdimage page, remember that they are very unstable versions so they are not recommended for regular use.