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Which Ubuntu?   It has been released that Canonical will no longer be funding the Unity desktop for Ubuntu, and this has raised a lot of chatter within the various online communities, and also with new users. New users seem to be a little confused over Ubuntu and Ubuntu based operating systems, so I am going to try and compile a list of sorts here today.  As I have explained before, with some distributions you can choose different desktop distributions with linux operating systems. For instance, I am currently test driving KDE Neon, which uses the plasma desktop, Linux Mint is available with Cinnamon, KDE, XFCE and Mate desktops. The Unity desktop has been the main feature for Ubuntu for some years now, but will be using the Gnome desktop as a standard replacement. But people don't realise that you can already get Ubuntu Gnome, and various other desktop versions, so if you fancy trying them out, you can download them for free. I'll supply links but you can always googl