Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
The good folks over at Canonical have released the newest Long Term Support version of their Free Linux operating system Ubuntu codename Trusty Tahr.
After waiting for the update to show up on a previous LTS 12.04, impatience won out and a fresh install of Trusty Tahr was inaugurated on a 64bit AMD box's spare drive.
Despite it's name, Unity has a pretty vocal community of detractors. With past versions, Unity quickly got under my skin and ends up as a spare session rarely, if ever, used, instead opting for a lighter more traditional desktop experience. LXDE worked well and stayed out of my way and was the first post installation package. To render a fair judgement for this review, Unity has been the primarily used session since installation, but it is comforting having the old standby ready and a re-login away.
Many users complain about Unity's rearrangement of applications menus to the top of the screen for the currently focused window Apple style. Canonical apparently has had enough of this complaint and added the option to move them back (where they belong) via the Appearance option in System Settings.
Even with the menus in the title bar, you'll find the behavior has been tweaked to allow for more natural mousing around. See Also Autohide, and Workspaces options. These slight UI changes really do go along way in making Unity a more usable and less annoying desktop. The fact that it crashes about 99% less often is also a very welcome improvement.
The good folks over at Canonical have released the newest Long Term Support version of their Free Linux operating system Ubuntu codename Trusty Tahr.
After waiting for the update to show up on a previous LTS 12.04, impatience won out and a fresh install of Trusty Tahr was inaugurated on a 64bit AMD box's spare drive.
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Despite it's name, Unity has a pretty vocal community of detractors. With past versions, Unity quickly got under my skin and ends up as a spare session rarely, if ever, used, instead opting for a lighter more traditional desktop experience. LXDE worked well and stayed out of my way and was the first post installation package. To render a fair judgement for this review, Unity has been the primarily used session since installation, but it is comforting having the old standby ready and a re-login away.
Many users complain about Unity's rearrangement of applications menus to the top of the screen for the currently focused window Apple style. Canonical apparently has had enough of this complaint and added the option to move them back (where they belong) via the Appearance option in System Settings.
Even with the menus in the title bar, you'll find the behavior has been tweaked to allow for more natural mousing around. See Also Autohide, and Workspaces options. These slight UI changes really do go along way in making Unity a more usable and less annoying desktop. The fact that it crashes about 99% less often is also a very welcome improvement.
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