Explain to me again why Unity is so great...

[Tom H]

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Ben Darby <bendarb at gmail.com> wrote:
> * Jordon Bedwell (jordon at envygeeks.com) wrote:
>>
>> Ubuntu hasn't and never will drop GNOME.  Unity is a shell for GNOME.
>
> How can you be so sure that Ubuntu will never decide to, for whatever
> reason explained or not, drop GNOME? They've had no issues with chopping
> and changing default applications, stated they are moving away from X.
> You can't take anything for granted, Ubuntu might decide they are moving
> in different directions and develop their own solution.

They are moving to Wayland (as is Red Hat[1]), which is a display
server and upon which, AIUI, X can be run, if needed. This is similar
to Apple's Quartz graphics system.

[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-November/145273.html