Ubuntu Unity Sees BIG CHANGES – Ubuntu Unity 23.04
Ubuntu Unity has seen significant progress both over the past six months since its last release as well as steadily over the past couple years.
0:00 Intro / Unity History
1:50 Nice Improvements Since 22.10
3:55 Long-Term Improvement
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Ubuntu unity is nice but as I can see its maintainers have started ''experimenting'' with top panel and made it less usable and much uglier. For example, they've added space on both left and right corners, made it bigger and for what reason?
The "G" in Gnome is silent. For some reason a lot of people say GUH-nome or GEE-nome with sounds really weird when talking about it.
not a fan of dash redesign tbh…sad
I used Unity for awhile, but moved to XFCE and stayed there for quite awhile. Now that I have a system with enough resources, it's KDE.
Informative video. But are you…. pronouncing the silent 'g' in gnome?
God i hated Unity… always installed KDE right after Ubuntu installation
Unity was cool, it looked elegant and it came with the HUD, which I didn't use enough, but I was very excited about it and I wish I learned to take more advantage of it! After Unity, I switched to Mate, then XFCE. I kinda feel like Mate doesn't appeal to me anymore, but XFCE, on the other hand, is like that ex-GF you still love and want to go back to. Nowadays I'm a KDE Plasma user. I think Plasma is all you need, it's fast, lightweight, modern, full of features, very customizable and very traditional too. About Gnome, I like how it looks today, it's a very modern system with many cool attributes to it, but I've never really used it myself and I doubt it will satisfy my workflow. I'm willing to give it a try though, I just feel very comfortable using Plasma right now and at the same time I'd love to experience more tiling WM like dwm, Xmonad, etc. which I have little experience with. Maybe I should have children and make'em try all of those for me… 😮💨 I'll have to make some time to do all that. Anyway, I hope Unity keeps improving, I'd love to see more of it.
Unity (and Budgie and Gnome) are very slow. I tried all under UTM Qemu on my M1 Mac, and while XFce and Mate were usable, none of these other ones were. The reason why I'm mentioning emulation here is because that's how you can see if something is truly fast, or slow. If you're using bare metal on modern, fast x86 CPUs, you won't see a difference between any of these environments. They're all fast-enough. But under emulation, you can truly see who's fast, and how's a turtle. And Unity was a turtle. Instead, on all such comparisons on youtube, reviewers only mention RAM. Which usually ranges anywhere from 500 to 1.2 GB depending on the DE. That's nothing, and of no consequence, when 8 GB is the norm, and you can buy a 16 GB laptop for $600. But actual speed can be felt more, if the CPU you're using is a Celeron or a U laptop CPU.
this dudes head is longer than florida
Please show examples of basic customisation in your reviews – hiding the dash, moving the taskbar, using two monitors, etc. It's such a common thing we do after installation and it would be nice to see how easy it is in each DE.
Honestly I'll never understand why so many people hate Unity, it was and still is my all time favorite desktop environment. I use Arch and the current port of Unity is 7.6 which isn't very usable, so I ended up forking Openbox and customized it to make it look and function like Unity
Nice review. So, what IS your recommendation for the best new user distro?
For wallpaper – solid color , black – still not available ? In KDE you have this option …
Cool
Unity still sucks and you have no idea why