Comment 881 for bug 1

I think something important to do is to fusion the official Ubuntu-based distributions. So Ubuntu will become Gnome, KDE, XFCE, like many other distribution does.

The installer (in a Advanced option maybe) should ask the user for the Desktop Environment, like KDE, XFCE and others (downloading them from the repository), and of course, provide a default and recommended Desktop Environment.

With this way I think the computers companies could choose to include Gnome, KDE, XFCE or whatever they like, and at the same time, they are using the official Ubuntu and not a variant of it.