Ubuntu dropping Unity desktop in favour of GNOME April 5, 2017 by admin Tweet Canonical has decided to give up on its hope to bring about convergence across all types of devices and has announced it will move to GNOME in Ubuntu 18.04. Canonical will now focus on IoT and cloud. Read more… Neowin Related Posts:Ubuntu 25.04 now available with GNOME 48 and Linux…GNOME 46 released, will come with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS…Canonical releases Ubuntu Core 22 designed for IoT…Canonical now supports Ubuntu LTS releases for 12…Microsoft and Canonical bring native .NET 6 to Linux…