Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus
The remix still has a few small rough edges. The GNOME Shell is still installed, although it doesn't appear on the login menu. The remix uses the GNOME system monitor, which has no menu bar – possibly because the MATE one works fine, but doesn't show up in the app launcher. In the volume control, scrolling down increases the volume, and up decreases it, the opposite of what we expected.
The main things are that it works, and things are getting fixed. As you might have gathered from our recent, we're just happy to see another of the very few options that are totally un-Windows-like. Now that there is a version of Unity that's no longer maintained by Canonical at all, perhaps we might even see it on other distros. It used to be an option in Arch and Fedora.
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