Ubuntu gnome-shell design Bad news for Unity Desktop fans, that Ubuntu will stop developing Unity 8 and MIR. For more than 2 years development Unity 8 and MIR don't have stable release, too many bugs and only few hardware supported. Ubuntu CEO has announced that next LTS release will use Gnome as default desktop instead of Unity. Its good news for Gnome fans, but bad news for unity fans. Good news for Gnome development to get more support for canonical. Do you have plan to upgrade your Ubuntu OS to next LTS version, which not use unity as default desktop again?