Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
Unity was never the main reason people chose to use Ubuntu -- it was always (well, from when I first heard about it until I lost interest (5 years ago)) the claim that Ubuntu is easier to install than Debian.<p>I never understood the fixation about <i>ease of installing</i>, as that&#x27;s something I either did once every few years on custom hardware, or had automated already using a CFM.  For stuff I installed manually (laptops, occasional desktop rebuilds) partitioning was always the thing that gave me the most pause - and a graphical installer vs text installer didn&#x27;t really impact that process.  Picking a new hostname wasn&#x27;t any easier with a GUI than a text interface either.<p>The common claim was that Ubuntu <i>had</i> have better X, init (upstart), installer, and maybe some more recent exotic drivers -- but I was hard-pressed to identify the differentiating factors from Debian testing (what most of my friends &amp; family were on, at my behest).