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Unity Desktop Environment Will Receive Its First Major Update in 6 Years

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Bobby Borisov
May 3, 2022

Unity Desktop Environment is a graphical shell for the GNOME desktop environment designed and maintained by Canonical for Ubuntu operating systems. It was later abandoned by Canonical and taken over by other maintainers.

Unity 7.6 will be the first major version of Unity in six years, with the previous release in May 2016. It has a redesigned look, with elements like the dash and HUD having a flatter UI while retaining the blur.

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