ok first of all, happy holidays or christmas to everyone!! happy debian day! but anyway i just wanted to ask something, why does ubuntu use its own version of gnome?? (taskbar in desktop, material colors, etc) i know that even distros like pop os! or fedora use vanilla gnome so why would canonical change the settings of gnome?? i think ubuntus gnome is cute but vanilla is amazing and well at least they give you the freedom of changing desktop environment but still, i dont know why canonical would do that!!
Consistency with their previous default desktop environment, Unity.
is unity still maintained?? can i still use it?? when i was tinkering with ubuntu gnome tweaks there were “humanity” icons and they were the ones from unity
There is a Unity edition of Ubuntu.
Not by Cannonical but there are volunteers that still work on Unity.
There’s two projects aimed at carrying on Unity in the modern era.
Unity7/Unityd essentially continues support for Unity as it was shipped in Ubuntu and focuses more on that desktop experience, and Lomiri continues what would’ve been Unity 8 and focuses more on a consistent UX across mobile and desktop.