Ubuntu Unity

Reader supplied reviews for Ubuntu Unity Average rating 8.8 from 19 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Ubuntu Unity? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 26.04-beta25.0424.1024.0423.1023.0422.10 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 24.04 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-04-22 Votes: 12 If you like streamlining, this could be a great distro for you. I wasn't in the Linux community back when Unity was the "official" Ubuntu desktop, but I wish I was after seeing this. Even though the website warns that Ubuntu Unity is not technically considered stable, I have experienced few issues with this high quality distro, and after using this, I think that the Unity desktop should not have been completely discarded by Canonical. The user experience is smooth, the system is stable, and Unity has features like the HUD, which allows you to search through the main menu of an app, helpfully located in the same location (the top bar) no matter what app you use, assuming of course that they support integration. Plus, all the apps, surprisingly including snaps, like Firefox, are well integrated and preform very well. I was surprised, but pleased that the default file manager is now Nemo, instead of Nautilus. I don't know if Nemo was originally unique to Cinnamon, but it fits right in with Unity. The themes are getting more consistent with every release, and I appreciate the work going into it. Overall, this Distro is not the lightest, though not the heaviest, but certainly the most beautiful distro I have used with the exception of Kubuntu or Debian with KDE, and I have used Elementary OS, so that's saying a lot. While it is less customizable than many Distros, I have found that this is because the desktop is already so efficient, anyone would be hard pressed to improve it. However, if you want to customize it more (read obsessively) then since it runs with Compiz, there's more potential than anything else I've seen, possibly tying with KDE, and easily surpassing Cinnamon. (Just be careful- as ccsm warns, configuring Compiz is best left to those who know what they're doing. This is not legal advice.) It is an absolutely wonderful daily driver that I depend on for stability and usefulness on two PCs already- and I rarely install the same Distro twice. I highly recommend this. However, if you've already decided that you don't like Unity... then why are you reading this review? Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 24.04 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-02-01 Votes: 13 This distro deserves more praise. I used Ubuntu unity back when canonical was developing it. I enjoyed the fact that they went a separate way from gnome and was by far the best desktop experience out there at the time. The they decided to go with gnome so dropped us Unity fans to the side so I moved to Arch. Years later here I am back on Ubuntu Unity and thankful to the people behind keeping it alive. It's now my daily driver, everything works as it should and it's perfect for my work flow. Ubuntu with gnome is slow and clunky, but with Unity it's perfect, fast and just works. The long term release version follows that of Ubuntus core version and being an official flavour makes me feel assured that it's here to stay. If you want something that's based on Ubuntu and just works then I strongly recommend this distro. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 24.04 Rating: 8 Date: 2024-07-11 Votes: 4 I've installed it on my refurbeshed macbook pro retina "13 2015. I managed to activate the backlight on the keybord and installed the gnome software center. Way better than Mac os Monterey in term of freedom to install what you want. It warms up because is summer and it is a nine years old machine and the webcam doesnt work. I love Ubuntu Unity it works well for my needs. I'm using flatpak to. I like to use my macbook to watch series on pluto tv or other free platform and theres no problem with Ubuntu Unity. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 19 reader reviews of Ubuntu Unity...