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Robertjm
October 27th, 2014, 05:15 AM
Hi all,

I'm thinking about adding the PPA, and upgrading to Unity 8. Are there any major problems anyone is having on 14.04LTS right now? Additionally, if I do decide to install the newer version, will it be a real pain to downgrade to Unity 7 if I change my mind?

I don't want to have too much of a hassle should I decide to do that.

Thanks!

Robert
deadflowr
October 27th, 2014, 06:00 AM
What ppa?
You can install unity8 following this
http://askubuntu.com/questions/447891/how-to-install-unity-8

edit: I realize in hindsight that my initial question might come off as cynical, or sarcastic, but I'm sincere in wanting to know which ppa you are referring to.
Robertjm
October 27th, 2014, 06:28 AM
No worries. I guess I misunderstood what I was looking at earlier. It appears to be a PPA for dependencies (unless I'm not reading that correctly too).

https://launchpad.net/~unity-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
grahammechanical
October 27th, 2014, 05:05 PM
You will get a login screen option. The usual Ubuntu login option will remain but the last used session will become the default session. I tried unity8-desktop-session-mir (it is in the software centre) on 14.10 the other day, and if I remember correctly I got a black screen after logging in. You might get better results.

Regards.
buzzingrobot
October 28th, 2014, 12:56 PM
Per this (http://mhall119.com/2014/10/unity-8-desktop/) currently you need to manually create a password to log in to the live session of the Unity 8 desktop.

However, I tried yesterday's 15.04 Unity 8 daily and the live session, via the 'try' option, worked without a password, as usual. What I got was the phone interface. That was my first look at Unity 8, so maybe that's all that's there at the moment.
Robertjm
October 28th, 2014, 05:30 PM
Really? For some reason I thought there was more to it right now. GRRRR! ;)


Per this (http://mhall119.com/2014/10/unity-8-desktop/) currently you need to manually create a password to log in to the live session of the Unity 8 desktop.

However, I tried yesterday's 15.04 Unity 8 daily and the live session, via the 'try' option, worked without a password, as usual. What I got was the phone interface. That was my first look at Unity 8, so maybe that's all that's there at the moment.