"Unity 7.6 will be the first major release of Unity in 6 years"
We have restarted the active development of Unity7 and will be releasing new versions with more features regularly.
https://unity.ubuntuunity.org/blog/unity-7.6/
* Windows-like window snapping out of the box. No extension hacks.
* Global app menu... save an inch of vertical screen real estate.
* Fully optionally keyboard driven.
* Much faster than Gnome.
* Much less fatter looking than Gnome.
Can I get it on Fedora?
The short/mid term plan is to rework it to be platform independent.
So yeah, eventually.
Does it do phone integration better than gnome and KDE?
Are they allowed to use the Ubuntu trademark?
It's Canonical endorsed but they aren't hosting automated builds yet on cdimage.ubuntu.com.
Download: https://ubuntuunity.org/download/
OR... build it yourself! It's just a set of packages on top of vanilla Ubuntu 22.04
1. Go to: https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/ubuntu-remixes/ubuntu-unity
2. Download zip, extract.
3. Open terminal:
$ sudo apt install xorriso cd-boot-images-amd64 make
$ ./fetch_build
(Optionally just run make if you downloaded the latest Ubuntu 22.04 iso manually)
You should now have: ubuntu-unity-22.04.iso
4. Burn the live USB:
df -h
sudo dd if=./ubuntu-unity-22.04.iso of=DEVICE bs=1M && sync
Have fun.
Gotta select lightdm when it prompts during the build process.
it looks like a better gnome
This could unironically save Ubuntu. Hype if this helps to push global menu bars again.
Unity was the answer to Gnome 3, they could've made it work if Canonnical hadn't pushed to lock it to Ubuntu only and Mir wasn't flacky. It had rough edges, however nothing as awful as Gnome 3 was.
Can I use it on Debian?
Possibly. The packages are available for manual installation: https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/ubuntu-remixes/ubuntu-unity/-/blob/jammy/build/switch.sh
This works on Ubuntu. Not tested on Debian, but maybe worth doing if you want to use it on an existing PC.
But the easiest way to just try is to download or build the iso and boot the live CD.
>https://unity.ubuntuunity.org/team/
not sure if I want to contribute and I am a pajeet myself. There is just something inherently distrustful to a project headed by two indians...
Thought the exact same thing at first, but the leads history is quite impressive: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/rs2009
I don't see him throwing away his substantial reputation in the open source community, and cinnamon, MATE, Ubuntu projects for a quick scam.
Also he shows his face and streams constantly on twitch and in interviews. He'd have a lot to lose if he shipped cryptomining in the builds or something.
>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/rs2009
>>I study in Grade 7 of Delhi Public School, Bangalore East, Bengaluru, India and am 12 years old. I’m a Linux enthusiast and am passionate about Open Source.
>>>12 years old
sounded good until I read that.
Yup, thought the same thing, but after seeing a few videos, I'm becoming convinced he knows his shit.
One of the KDE devs interviewing him here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc6gGs2kM4c
He has been spearheading very early versions of Ubuntu Unity for a few years now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Unity and its just recently been getting to the point where new versions of Unity are now being built for it and its becoming very good.
Sounds based
in the old days humans began work in 12-15 years, this dude knows his shit
Unity made me leave Ubuntu back then but now that I see it again, I kinda want to try it out.
May give it a try on a 2nd machine
>12 y.o pajeet changed a few visual settings and called it a release
>there's actually morons who are going to use it
Is this really all he did?
I tried it maybe half a year ago in a VM and it was absolutely broken. Not usable at all.
But even if it would be working as intended, it's still Unity, aka trash.
I haven't seen him properly touching any internals(the reason canonical abandoned it in the first place), only
1. Changing some visual stuff
2. Changing build/infrastructure stuff
3. Disabling canonical services that aren't needed anymore then saying he decreased the memory usage like he actually did something
In this case, even people who liked Unity shouldn't get their hopes up. It really doesn't work. Window decorations were wrong, Windows wouldn't draw correctly, several buttons and settings did nothing etc. And these are just the more in your face problems I encountered when I tried it.
But I'm willing to try it out again as soon as he releases it, just for shit and jiggles. I kinda want this to be good, even if I don't like Unity.
Kinda minor, but found a legit C enhancement.
https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/unity/unity-control-center/-/commit/324ee48ef91f02787388d15c22f9a59d943dd926
Can seem like that but yes and no. Here's the biggest changeset I could find, about 10 pages of this, getting C API calls changed around and dependencies updated so it compiles on 22.04 libraries.
https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/unity/unity/-/commit/dc07cfd711362179002bf8ef494f3deac2821642
He should change the compositor. Unity still uses compiz, if I remember correctly, and this thing is unmaintained for several years now and seems to be the main culprit for windows acting up and several stability issues.
He should either fix compiz or rip it out.
I think Compiz would have to be fixed as Unity is just a Compiz plugin.
To be fair both Ubuntu MATE and Fedora MATE have essentially first-class Compiz support- its not unused, just unmaintained.
Compiz is under 30 megs. By todays standards it's extremely slim and fast.
On that note, especially considering Unity is C, and all Gnome 42+ plugins are javascript.
I just watched a few newer videos of Ubuntu Unity and it looks like he fixed many Compiz related issues. It actually looks way better now than when I tried it.
As soon as he releases something I give it a shot in another VM.
Surprisingly stable and nice when nvidia drivers are fully loaded.
Runs kinda meh on live usb without 3D acceleration though.
why is this board so obsessed with indian kids
Running quad monitors here, works surprisingly well.
mild e-celeb spam but very related.
He is mad that gnome is a good desktop envoirment.
>Much faster than Gnome.
demonstrably false.
>Much less fatter looking than Gnome.
Again, demonstrably false. Unity is just GTK window with forced titlebar.
It's a nice side project for pajeet teenager if it's not a middle-aged guy just larping. It's literally just a reskin of Unity 6 with repackaged third party shit you can download anyway as extensions. No real progress with outdated HCI protocols.
Gnome 42 will hopefully get more cohesive with GTK4 development, other than that, all UI is still meme
I really want to like Gnome but it needs half a dozen extensions to be usable for anything but a web browser shell
AKA "unless it's a feature I personally use, it is bloat and should be removed."
Why are all the core apps being rebuilt every 5 years with half the featureset of the predecessor?
Canonical had the more effective UX team. Unity should have stayed. Now we get to watch Gnome rebuild all of their core apps yet again and break all plugins with every release, meanwhile having less features we did 10 years ago.
>We have restarted the active development of Unity7
Who is we? Canonical?
These pajeet looking terminal colors...
I hope this is not the default.
>restarted development
>we changed the accent color!
Did a IQfygay made this?