Of course to use this means you have to use Unity. I really gave Unity a try. I ran it for over three months to see if it was inertia holding me back, but I found myself struggling to do so much, like fix Compiz when a graphics driver update broke it and even just tweaking fonts in the system menus. Trying to install software brought me to some sort of Ubuntu App Store that didn't list stuff from the world of free Linux Software. It's a lucky thing I know how to use apt. I eventually gave up and switched to xfce and was shocked at how much easier everything was. There was a menu that allowed me to discover several control panels I had missed entirely with Unity.

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Launching applications was quicker and easier. I got virtual desktops back (I was missing them bigtime).

I'm convinced. I'm not switching back to Unity, not without some sort of major overhaul.

All it did was make what should have been easy administration tasks harder than they should be, and made discovering applications almost impossible. If you didn't already know exactly what you want, Unity won't help you find it, despite being built like basically a search engine for your computer. It felt like someone was trying to run a Tablet OS on a workstation, which just doesn't work.

The environments are too different. Tablets are vertically integrated content consumption devices while a workstation needs to be far more flexible and configurable for a large variety of tasks. The control panel Ubuntu shipped with Unity is a total joke, it has maybe 40% of the configuration options a Workstation user might need. They are supposedly going to overhaul unity. Note your complaints: Compiz, the control panel, etc. Are pretty much going out during the transition from the Old unity 7 - based on a Gnome 3 base - to the newer Unity 8, that supposedly will come out in Ubuntu 14.10. This new Unity will use qt5 predominantly, and will have a newer display server.

Now, how this Unity 8 will look like I seriously have no clue - this part has been developed in great secrecy, and I've yet to see any features in it. But I bet that due to being off of the gnome 3 base, they'll gain more flexability in what their main experience Unity is supposed to be. We'll have to wait and see canonical's true wizardry. Download adobe flash player on samsung smart tv. Compiz wasn't a big problem except that it's control panel was not installed, and even when installed it doesn't show up on the Unity control panel, so when I needed to fix it, I had to google to find the name of the application I needed to install and run. In an older window manager, that would have been on the menu and I would just find it and run it. I'm not holding out much hope for a fully revamped control panel. They had plenty of time to fix the Unity control panel and they never did.

It seemed to me that Ubuntu designed it that way on purpose. Besides, when your problem is that you're not feature complete, starting over from scratch is not a good way to fix it. I'm also expecting the new display server to be more trouble than it is worth for several years. People like to bag on X for being old and crusty and 'who uses display independence anyway?' , but it has been around for so long that it's largely problem free and quite performant these days.

It's not perfect of course. The complete lack of audio support in X has always been a major oversight IMHO, and display independence is not very compatible with 3D acceleration (GL is too chatty) which is a problem now that people want to use the graphics card to draw simple windows (see: Unity), but it's one that's getting 'fixed' by removing display independence entirely. Just use VNC they'll say, like it's not crashy and slow and poorly integrated with the system and a hassle to set up.

This is partially me though. When given the choice between semi-transparent windows and the ability to bring up my graphical mail client on any machine I want, the latter is far more useful to me. In truth, the control panel issues reflect the problems Unity had with upstream gnome 3 - even at the start of Unity's existance.

The gnome developers kept removing backwards compatability of each version of their software, and made putting worthwhile effort in building off of gtk3 incredably difficult. Now they learned that they couldn't get the desktop they wanted with the uncontrolable base. Start from scratch on top of a base that's more flexable - and qt5 I consider quite a nice one. Also, I find it hilarious that this gets reported breathlessly on Ars, a site that made a big fuss about visitors using adblockers. I don't remember a big fuss. I do remember a piece about adblockers and them kindly asking users to disable them from blocking ads on Ars. Remember when they disabled the site for a day or so?