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Last week Mark Shuttleworth dropped the bomb that the next release of Ubuntu, 11.04, would ship with Unity as the default window manager. This caused a lot of concern throughout the community, but most were getting used to the idea, appeased by the knowledge that GNOME Shell would be but a few clicks away. But yesterday he went even further - he announced that Ubuntu would be moving to the Wayland graphical server as well. Has Shuttleworth lost his mind? Or does he know something we don't?

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I am not a fan of Cloud computing at all. However I think it is a great step for Linux. There are many who just want to jump on the computer and access email, Facebook and other basics. They have no idea about computers and how they really work. The don't want to learn. They just want to use. With this I see Cloud computing becoming popular.

I think Shuttleworth sees this. It is a great business move in my opinion and I think the gains for Ubuntu, in the sense of the amount of people using it, will outweigh any loses of people upset over changes.

I stopped using Ubuntu in part because I was not interested in the direction it was going in. But I think it is, over all a good direction.

In my opinion all of this is great for getting people use to Linux and familiar with it, even if it is the basic level.

I am curious to see though if the Wayland Graphical Server and Unity work out well for Ubuntu.