A Surprising New Remix Of Ubuntu 20.04 Brings Unity Back To Life

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Nice little writeup!

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Literally, I was quite surprised when I looked on the websites and saw the Ubuntu Unity Remix being announced:

https://sempreupdate.com.br/lancado-ubuntu-unity-20-04-lts/

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There has always been something that Unity had that was just brilliant in redefining how a desktop UI could work. Way ahead of its time, maybe with more recent hardware being capable of running it more efficiently it may see some resurgence.

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On my Bionic system, Unity is SO much faster and more responsive than the default GNOME desktop. I think Xenial is still my FAVORITE release and Iā€™m very nervous about upgrading to Focal.

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I am still running xenial on my ThinkCentre m715s (AMD PRO A8-9600 R7, AMD CARRIZO) and Unity is so much faster than GNOME Shell. And yes I tried GNOME shell without animations on 18.04 and 20.04 and there are significant slow downs. I am surprised how fast Unity is even with many apps open.

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