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You are not alone, Unity was my desktop until it was dropped by Canonical. I ended up moving to Windows after that as I did not like the replacement. The main thing I remember was that it was quite fast and worked well with Vmware which is what I used to host client's VMs. Maybe I will give it another go now.

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It was always there, just apt install unity? It even asks you which greeter to use and, unlike when Canonical was trying to monetize it, you don't have to remove the adware "lenses" such as Amazon.

I was aware of that but, at the time, there was a lot of uncertainty and I value continuity and stability for my main development machine.

Gnome was always faster than Unity. Which is not surprising considering Unity was a bunch of hacks on top of Gnome.

> Unity was a bunch of hacks on top of Gnome

Where do you get this shit? Over 11 years ago, Shuttleworth abandoned the vision of Unity as a shell for Gnome.

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