Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) Release Notes

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* The Ubuntu Desktop now uses GNOME instead of Unity.

Maybe I'll give stock Ubuntu Desktop a try again!

It's sweet that they've now merged with Ubuntu GNOME and you can switch between the stock experience and the GNOME Ubuntu's experience simply by installing/uninstalling a package.

I don't grok the hate for Unity... There was of course the "Hey instead of having engineers make a new windowing system why not improve an existing one" argument, but ... it's a fine window manager.

No hate. I just point put it is hard to use for old grumpy engineers like me after they broke alt-tab with no accessibility option for grumpy old engineers.

Meanwhile Gnome has done the same AFAIK.

As for why it has sometimes got a bit loud it is because it was almost perfect and instead of fixing the last glitches they decided to ruin everything (to please ux people or mac lovers or something.)

Curious what the alt-tab problem is/was? It, in accompaniment with alt-backtick does everything I'd expect...?

I can't use alt-tab alone to switch between all the things I work on.

When I have to stop in the middle of the process to switch and use a different key that is a massive failure - in my book.

You may not have noticed, but you don't need alt-backtick if you pause for a second or two on the icon. The window you're on then magically expands out into all the windows that comprise that app. I really didn't like it and I disabled it but if you don't like alt-backtick that'd be your savior.

So while we do differ in what we like, Unity does support both, I think!

>Python 2 is no longer installed by default. Python 3 has been updated to 3.6.

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