rudra saraswat has given us a new version of the Ubuntu flavor it maintains. What this April 2023 is Unity 23.04And I have to start by congratulating you. When Unity came out in 2010, Canonical decided to stab good performance in the back, and many of us ended up hating this graphical environment. Now, some 13 years later and not being semi-forced to use it, things look very different, and a lot of it lies with the young developer.
This Unity looks little like the original. It's much better designed, and the performance, well, coming from where it came from tastes like blessed glory. Now it is an option to consider that can compete with other flavors like Ubuntu Budgie. Although, from my point of view, I think the design of the system tray widgets needs to be improved, but step by step; this is the first version is to use Unity 7.7, and surely things will be polished with the passage of time.
Highlights of Ubuntu Unity 23.04
- Supported for 9 months, until January 2024.
- Linux 6.2.
- Unity 7.7, with new features such as:
- new dash.
- A slightly larger panel that is translucent by default and looks better in light mode.
- indicator-notification is installed by default, and allows you to see how many notifications there are.
- UWidgets are now supported.
- The Settings app interface has been drastically improved.
- The BFB launcher is now half-transparent.
- Updated packages, including those shared by the entire Lunar Lobster family: Firefox 111, Thunderbird 102, LibreOffice 7.5, Python 3.11, GCC 13, GlibC 2.37, Ruby 3.1, golang 1.2, LLVM 16.
To upgrade from a previous version, it is worth following our tutorial on how to do it from terminal. Although they have many differences, Ubuntu Unity 23.04 also has similarities to Ubuntu 23.04, so what works on one should work on the other. It may take a while for updates to go live for existing installations. To install from scratch, the new ISO is available on the following button: