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Ubuntu Desktop: charting a course for the future (ubuntu.com)
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It has been a little while since we shared our vision for Ubuntu Desktop, and explained how our current roadmap fits into our long term strategic thinking. Recently, we embarked on an internal exercise to consolidate and bring structure to our values and goals for how we plan to evolve the desktop experience over the next few years. This post is designed to share the output of those discussions and give insight into the direction we’re going.

  • Ubuntu Desktop has more than 6 million monthly active users (based on devices checking for desktop-specific updates and not including those behind a corporate firewall or proxy).
  • Ubuntu Desktop is by far the most popular Linux distribution for developers (~27% in the 2023 Stack Overflow developer survey).
  • Ubuntu Desktop is the most used desktop Linux distribution for gaming (when you include older LTS and interim releases grouped inside the ‘Other category’ on the Steam hardware survey).
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[–] ErnieBernie10@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Least corporate blogpost 💀

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Charting a course straight into the abyss. Install Debian.

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 4 points 1 year ago

Hahaha no

[–] Cpo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

This is just a sales pitch. We wants featuress in our pocketsess.