Few months ago we have talked about the UKUI graphical environment, which was specifically designed for everyone who wants to enjoy a Windows 10-style interface on the Ubuntu operating system.
UKUI is a MATE-based desktop environment that ships with a Custom interface, icons and windows to mimic the general layout and desktop of Windows 10. Likewise, it also brings the Peony file manager, which is very similar to Windows File Explorer, in addition to having a Start menu. This theme is being developed by the Ubuntu Kylin community.
UKUI - Ubuntu 17.04 with Windows 10 layout
Faced with the announcement made by Canonical a short time ago, when the company revealed that it would abandon the Unity interface to adopt GNOME by default starting with Ubuntu 18.04, the UKUI developers decided to implement a single panel of MATE with various indicators and applets, including a tool that shows the date and time as in the Windows operating system.
The desktop also has its own settings tool that was designed to look like the Windows control panel.
UKUI is already in the official Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) repositories and you can install it together with Unity, GNOME and other desktop environments, but it has several drawbacks.
Disadvantages of UKUI
The first thing to note is that installing the UKUI desktop environment will also install the Ubuntu Kylin start and lock screen, in addition to the Kylin desktop settings. The latter will affect the default Unity desktop by overriding it with the default settings from Ubuntu Kylin (launcher at the bottom, Chinese language, etc.). All these changes can be reversed but it could take a while to get it done.
How to install UKUI on Ubuntu 17.04
UKUI is completely free and can be installed either from the Ubuntu 17.04 software center (Zesty Zapus), or by running the following command in a new Terminal window:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntukylin-members/ukui sudo apt update && sudo apt install ukui-desktop-environment
How to uninstall UKUI
To uninstall the desktop, apps and all UKUI-linked settings, open a new Terminal window (Ctrl + Alt + T) and enter the following command, after which hit Enter:
sudo apt purge ukui-desktop-environment ubuntukylin-default-settings peony-common
Likewise, you should also go to Software & Updates > Other software to remove the Ubuntu Kylin repository.
So that? Ubuntu does not need to look like Windows or any other OS.
I have seen MacOS themes in Ubuntu or derivatives, it is only to take a walk around the net to see it, I do not see any problem, just as there will be Linux themes for Windows as well, another thing is that you do not want to see beyond what that one has.
Exactly!!!
It is useful for foolish people who see it as "difficult" and prefer the known.
Astrid Arias It is easier to install the Cinnamon desktop
If that for what ????
It is interesting to have a familiar environment so that the change from one system to the other is not so confusing, perhaps for a user accustomed to Linux it seems ridiculous, but those of us who work in OS maintenance service and have to replace the operating system of A normally small company that wants to save this "skin" is a good alternative, because it is just that a mask in its guts is Ubuntu, as a Linux user I am free-minded, open to everything new, you have to think that it is just one more alternative and it is not healthy to become a fanatic.
And who would want that?
Let's see, Windows 10 is nice, but this is not very useful apart from facilitating the transition from one OS to another
I don't want it to look like windows I WANT UBUNTU TOUCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please!
But the colored checkered launcher is not there, that is the only grace, that is, it looks like windows 10 with the w95 launcher
For what?
And why would I want my Ubuntu to look like Windows ???
What a stupid thing
This is going to go PRE-INSTALLED on CHINESE laptops for XP and 7 users who don't like the 10 desktop. And it will be sold in stores. and the models that carry it are going to sell very well.
Because I have to want to have windor, knowing that I have installed a system as robust as Ubuntu….?
If what I want is not to know about win ...
And who wants to do that?
I think it is for my tastes, I like the interface of windows 10 and I would miss the mini-windows
It seems ridiculous to me that is heresy
N9oooooooooooooooooo, first remove Unity and now this ????? I panicked
For what?
I don't understand why. Ubuntu has much prettier "flavors".
I do not understand those who get like hysterical girls when they think about the aesthetics of ubuntu and it really is something that has no relevance, which in my opinion works for certain circumstances and by the way quite well (I explained it before), personally never I really liked the aesthetics of Ubuntu (if that of Kubuntu) its color combination, icon design, but since everything could be changed and configured at ease, it did not cause me any problem; Besides, I read in the comments that they suggest that this is something official, as if it were a new Canonical desktop environment and if it were, it was bad, I grew up in my adolescence and youth in a country of governments of military dictators and genocide , their excuse for committing genocide was "if you don't think like us you are a traitor."
What nonsense if you change to Ubuntu is because you do not want the Windows desktop!
And that for what ???
And that for what?
Thank you very much, just what I needed. I use Ubuntu out of necessity (and seasonally), I am a Windows user (very comfortable, by the way) and this helps me with the adaptation.