This tutorial shows you how to install Unity Desktop on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. We will also restore the nice-looking Unity login screen, in case you don’t like the GNOME login screen. I personally don’t like GNOME. Here’s why.
- There’s too much movement when switching between programs, which is distracting.
- GNOME is trying to remove functionalities that I love to use over the years.
- If you insert a USB stick, the icon is shown on the desktop. You need to minimize your current window to access it. In Unity, I can simply click the USB icon in the left launcher bar. I can’t understand why the icons are shown on the desktop when there’s room in the left bar.
- In GNOME, a program’s menu bar isn’t displayed on the top bar, which wastes screen real estate.
- I prefer the window control buttons (minimize, maximize, close) on the left side of title bar because when you click one of three buttons, you are likely to switch to another program, which requires you to click on the left side of the screen.
- Sometimes I want to hide the clock on the top bar so as to focus on my task and not worry about time and deadline. It can be easily done in Unity but difficult to do in GNOME.
Read full tutorial here: https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/install-unity-desktop-environment-ubuntu-20-04
