[alskdj21]

I still miss Unity's HUD. Imo, Unity was perfect. It has a good balance of beauty and efficiency out of the box.

[schmorptron]

Unity's (at least when I started using it with 14.04) UX, screen space usage and performance was so good. Global or locally integrated menu bar and making it searchable were great decisions. I'd much rather canonical had been successful with desktop & mobile consumer OS and upstart rather than with snappy

[tmtvl]

Have you tried the new Ubuntu Unity? It's not the same as it was back in 2013 (when I last used Unity), but it's still nice in various ways.