Do not use the Boot Repair disk (ISO). It hasn't been updated for years. Use a live session and install it from the PPA, i.e., the 2nd option: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
Thanks, I was not aware of that. It has helped me out many times, but now I'll use the live session version.
the reason I got nervous about using it: the only time I was hacked (at least to my knowledge), I was on a composers forum, which uses the Flash player (I won't use it myself and have been telling them for years to get rid of it). I stepped away from my computer for a bit, and when I returned, someone had got in somehow. They had a terminal up and running, and before my very eyes somebody was typing "chroot." Of course I shut down immediately, overwrote the OS (it was BSD system). I used a heavy duty app, something like "dban" as I recall. So, when I remembered that incident, and an app was wanting me to mess with the chroot command, I got cold feet. I don't know if they got in because of Flash, or because it was a BSD system, or something else. but I have become really paranoid now about the web.
No, it is maintained by the community, it can be easily installed with sudo apt install ubuntu-unity-desktop, switch to lightdm when prompted.
Reboot, log into unity, that's it (optionally one can remove gnome-shell)
I am using unity in 20.04. Works flawlessly, much better than the clunky mess that is gnome shell.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/desktop/ubuntu-unity-dev
Last edited by monkeybrain20122; September 5th, 2020 at 09:44 PM.
The only way I can get both U-16 and Lite 3.8 to boot is to have Lite be the Grub 0wner. If I have Ubuntu be the owner, Lite won't boot. not a big deal, except the Ubuntu grub is a lot prettier, with that purple color. Gotta have that purple...Oh well...
There are other boot managers, I hear. Guys in my Linux group use one, but since I don't dual boot, I've never paid attention. In the OS/2 days, I used some thing called OS-BS, but that was to get passed the boot sector limitation that lilo had all those years ago. I think grub is still used, just to each different system, they don't know about each other.
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Correction: Unity should be dead, dead, dead. It is an abomination. Has been since the beginning. Better?
But this is a matter of opinion.![]()
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