Michael BrazdaMay 18, 2017
I 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?
Show threadAndré BaçãoMay 18, 2017
@omnipotens I don't mind the death of unity but for sure that Canonical will end with the Linux Desktop effort.
My vision is that they will only focus on server and from time to time, fix some bugs that might appear in Gnome or other.
The desktop doesn't​ give them direct money.
Show threadMichael Brazda
@abacao That's not entirely true the desktop does give them money. It's just not as profitable. Hardware vendors and other companies purchase desktop support licenses. The issue is more people use Ubuntu in the cloud than on desktops.
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Show threadAndré BaçãoMay 18, 2017
@omnipotens like I said, the desktop don't give them direct money. And I don't think they get money from support of desktop but for support for server or am I wrong?
Show threadSeaSharpMay 18, 2017

@abacao @omnipotens Didn't the Ubuntu Gnome team recently put out a survey requesting input on Ubuntu Gnome features? They seem to be leaning up for sure, but I don't think the desktop is going anywhere, just slowing down.

It's not a bad thing for Ubuntu to leverage the Gnome dev base like this I think.

Show threadMichael BrazdaMay 18, 2017
@seasharp @abacao I dont think its a bad thing in general. I think it will create more focus to fix one gui. Companies like system76 Dell and many others already develop for desktop and its mostly been unity. Now it will bring them all to Gnome which can have a greater effect with redhat and others developing more. And like I said before Unity code is out there if its truly worth it then it will get forked.
Show threadMichael BrazdaMay 18, 2017
@abacao They do get money from desktop support. Companies like Dell purchase and even amazom purchases desktop support.