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newbie007

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Install Unity like Desktop Environment

Hello.

I would like to install Arch Linux and I chose Unity like Desktop Environment.

But ArchWiki says:
Unity was discontinued by Canonical on April 6, 2017 and is no longer being developed.[1] If you are already using it, a follow-on project to follow may be UBports' Unity8.

I am confused right now.

Do I understand that Unity 8 is no longer going officially on ArchLinux?

drcouzelis

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Re: Install Unity like Desktop Environment

Unity was never "officially" for Arch Linux.

You can install Unity on Arch Linux, but it will probably be hard to do. For example, to install KDE, you just use the pacman package manager to install the packages. To install Unity, you will be getting source code from unofficial servers and creating the package yourself.

Also, Unity is no longer being developed. That means if there are any bugs, or, if the Unity software becomes incompatible with the current software in Arch Linux (actually, it might already be...), then it won't get fixed.

loqs

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Re: Install Unity like Desktop Environment

Do I understand that Unity 8 is no longer going officially on ArchLinux?

No longer implies at some part Unity was in the official arch repositories.  As far as I am aware Unity was never in the official repositories.