Among other environments, I have been a full time user of CDE, Window Maker, Gnome 1.*, KDE 2.*, Java Desktop System, OpenSolaris Desktop, LXDE and XFCE.

I prefer to make the jump now instead of sticking a year with a desktop on life support. Soon-to-be-dead code is dead code, so even as a happy user I don’t see the interest in staying with Unity. However, today, Unity 7 is a beautiful and functional desktop environment. It’s clear that Unity has its detractors, and it’s true that the first releases (6 years ago!) were limited and buggy. Unity 7 runs on the X.org graphical stack, while the Linux world –including Ubuntu now– is slowly but surely moving to Wayland (it will be the default on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS).

Sadly, the desktop environment used by millions of Ubuntu users –Unity 7– has no path forward now. Starting from the 18.04 release, Ubuntu will use Gnome 3 as the default Desktop environment. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, dropped a bombshell: Ubuntu drops Unity 8 and –by extension– also the Mir graphical server on the desktop. Updated: 20170525: add “No TopLeft Hot Corner”, use upstream “Top Icons Plus” instead of the one in the repos. Updated: 20170512: better support for multi monitor setups. Updated: 20170420: natural scrolling on X instead of Wayland. Updated: 20170419: gnome-shell extension browser integration. Tags: gnome, Gnome3, Linux, Linux Desktop, Thanks for all the fish, Ubuntu, unity Notes from my Unity -> Gnome3 migration Posted by claudio in Uncategorized.

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