What are the Alternatives to Ubuntu Unity

Unity is one of the popular desktop for Ubuntu. And many other distros wanted to adopt the unity too. But it seems that Ubuntu dropped some of the projects which were officially supported by the canonical. It seems they are not going to spend the money on the Unity and the Mir display driver. And that leads to common users to find some of the good alternatives around. And they have to find these alternatives and get used to it. This has to be done before another release of Ubuntu comes into the play. In this article, I want to discuss what are some of the alternatives of unity are out there.

XFCE

This is one of the low resource desktop that can be a good alternative to unity. It is not a good looking desktop like unity. But it has most of the features that you’d find good enough like the unity. And there are ways to get the most out of the XFCE. Make sure you can try it on distro such as XUBUNTU. And then you can decide if something like this is you would use for the work. I have tried it and so far it is working for my usage. Though it requires less RAM. I have found 1GB RAM is indeed not that bad. I think it’d be a good alternative for the Unity for those who wanted to use on the low RAM machine.

Budgie

This is a fork of the Gnome. And it has it’s own features like Unity. And it is one of the good looking desktop. I am sure you can find the most good looking use for the desktop. There are some of the features that may find it better for the desktop. It can be good if you are focusing on the simplicity. Also there are some of the plugins which can be used from the gnome. And that should work just fine as well. Though it is on top of the gnome. But it has managed to get some decent for the desktop. I am sure with enough time given the desktop can be of good use if they want to use it for long.

Cinnamon

This is the desktop that is being used by Mint desktop. And they are using for the most of the releases. And there are some of the users who have found the use of the desktop just fine. I am not sure if the cinnamon will be picked by the Ubuntu. But if they are doing good then surely it can be of use. I have seen that there are some other distros picking up on the cinnamon usage. I am not going to say it is good than unity. But it has enough features for anyone who wants to migrate to another operating system. And this means Cinnamon with Mint Linux is your next option for the desktop of Linux.

I think there are many other altenatives for those who want to use Unity altenative. I am not sure if it is worth spending much time trying to switch. Unity was good but it’s dead.

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