Unity is the default desktop environment for Ubuntu Linux, but since Ubuntu on Windows is designed for command-line use, it’s not enabled by default.

Ubuntu’s Unity desktop with Dash open. While a lot of experienced Linux users complain about Unity, it’s still a polished desktop environment anyone can get used to.

Now that Ubuntu Linux has chosen Unity as its default desktop environment, Linux Mint stands out as perhaps the most user-friendly distribution offering a non-Unity default alternative, as I’ve ...

Then Unity happened. When Canonical decided that Ubuntu would no longer sport the extremely comfortable GNOME 2 desktop and, instead, switch to the newly conceived Unity environment… ...

In an ongoing mailing list thread, the Ubuntu Technical Board is discussing whether the new Unity environment is a suitable default for the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 release, codenamed Natty Narwhal ...

While Unity got off to a rocky start, it’s earned some fans over time. And there’s no shortage of examples of community-based open source projects for desktop environments.

Unity Unity is a graphical desktop environment based on GNOME Shell. It was developed by Canonical specifically for use with Ubuntu Linux, and debuted in a netbook/lightweight version of Ubuntu ...

Perhaps one of the most missed Linux desktop environments is Ubuntu Unity Desktop, developed by Ubuntu’s parent company, Canonical. It was either loved or hated by users otherwise endeared to the ...

The highly anticipated (and controversial) GNOME 3 desktop environment released its final version today, adding better hardware integration, window management, and application management to Linux.

Linux Picks this week takes a look at this new desktop shell for Ubuntu. I have been using the Unity edition Canonical released for netbooks in its Ubuntu 10.10 Remix edition on both my small-screen ...

System requirements for Unity for Linux include 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 or newer – though the editor will run on most modern 64-bit Linux distributions, others won’t officially be supported ...