Comments on How to Test Mir and Unity 8 on Ubuntu 16.04
So, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is finally here and many of us are already getting our hands dirty with the final version of the most popular distribution that is using the X window system. While this long-term support release does look good, the upcoming major changes planned for Ubuntu 16.10 have generated great excitement.
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WOW! Mir looks awesome!
Didnt work for me, just go a non responsive screen on log on
es hermoso, deberian sacarlo aun sin mir, solo por estetica.
Was able to log on to Mir+Unity 8 but unable to access anything as keyboard seemed completely dysfunctional as well as the unity 8 screen. Had to do a restart as that seemed to be the only working command (accessible from "system" menu). Unfortunately when you install the mir+unity 8 preview, it sets itself as default after a reboot from it. I had to uninstall.
I don't like the new flat look, reminds me of the ugly and crappy Metro UI from Windows 10. :(
Thank you for the howto. I've installed it and got it started up (17.02.2017).
What concerns Unity8 and MIR the only thing that I can say is: AWFUL!
The problems:
- does not feel like a desktop environment, more like a private experiment originally written for DOS 6.21 (bad fonts, everything has strange edges, even the cursor in the password field looks like it is in the wrong place)
- bugs everywhere, absolutely nothing works
- strange commercial bullshit everywhere (that is possibly the true concept of scopes)
- copies the worst effects from Windows presumably (some strange effect after the mouse cursor reaches the screen boundary, broad bar at the right)
My conclusion: Unity follows its tradition to rely on visual gimmicks stolen from other (badly made) desktops. Only this time it is not the occasional really strange bug, but one whole big bug. I will see if Wayland is already available with KDE or GNOME. I don't know if it can be worse.
Why don't these articles have dates? Is this obsolete or still to date in Sept. 2017?
The title says this is for Ubuntu 16.04, so if you are using ubuntu 16.04 (which is the current Ubuntu LTS release), then this tutorial is the right one for you. Dates do not matter for tutorials as the same steps will work now and in X years in the exact same way, what matters is for which version of a software or operating system a tutorial is written as the steps will only work for that OS version and this information can be found in the headline.