Michael BrazdaI keep hearing everyone freak out over Ubuntu killing Unity and not focusing on Desktop anymore. My question is now that another main Distro now is running gnome and the death of Unity might help Gnome. Linux Desktop is not dead but now that will push more dev on one GUI. Hopefully that will make Gnome much better. What do you think?
Catbot@omnipotens I think it is clear that using Gnome is a means to reduce effort while still being able to offer a quality desktop. For Gnome that's really good news, a growing user- and contributor base. But that comes at the expense of Unity, so the number of people active in the Linux desktop does certainly not grow from Canonical's decision.
@Catbot Do we need them behind Unity for it to survive? Look at gnome 2 it was not it's time to die so it gave birth to Mate. Great thing about open source is the community controls the destiny not a single company.
@omnipotens @Catbot I really don't know. The obvious answer is No, Unity can survive. And it might, we just can't predict how many users will become contributors, and how many contributors will go away.