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+Canonical recently rolled out Ubuntu 16.10, a less experimental, but worthwhile, update to it's flagship Unity-based desktop.
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+There's plenty in Ubuntu 16.10 that make it worth the upgrade, though none of it is groundbreaking. Rather this release sees Canonical continuing to refine and bug-fix what at this point has become on the fastest, stablest, least-likely-to-completely-change-between-point-releases of the three major "modern" Linux desktops.
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+Still, while the Unity 7.5 desktop offer stability and speed today, it's not long for this world. Purportly not long for this world anyway. Ubuntu 16.10 is the seventh release since that the fabled Unity 8 and it's accompanying Mir display server were announced. And there's still no Unity 8 and Mir. 
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+In Canonical's defense, the competing display server project, Wayland, hasn't exactly taken the world by storm just yet. Wayland will likely [be the default for the Fedora Project's](https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-release-fedora-25-beta/) next release, Fedora 25. The differnce is that GNOME 3 isn't tied to Wayland and has been cranking out impressive releases for some time now while Unity 7.5 is feeling, well, a bit dated.
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+It's worth noting that Ubuntu 16.10 is the first official release of Ubuntu to ship with Unity 8 and Mir available. Good luck getting it to run though. Older hardware isn't up to the task and most new NVidia-based hardware won't work either. For this review I used both a Dell XPS and System 76 Oryx Pro and neither one of these very modern, well-specced pieces of hardware can successfully boot to Unity 8. Most accounts I've seen (like this video) show a streamlined Unity interface with a new set of icons. It's banal enough to make you wonder what the fuss is about.
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+But of course the fuss is about "convergence". The fuss is about the purported future in which you plug your phone into a monitor and it turns into a full desktop computing experience. I've started to feel like Fox Mulder waiting for Unity 8. I want to believe. I really do, but I've started to think convergence is about as likely as the zombie apocalypse and that the truth, the reality we'll end up with, will be somewhere below Canonical's fantasies of do anything phones and flesh eating updates that install Windows instead of Linux.
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+Which is to say Unity 8 isn't here yet and you should probably stop holding your breath waiting for it arrive. 
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+In the mean time Canonical is shipping a very nice desktop operating system that's fast, stable and has fixed most of the issues that plagued the last release, which was supposed to be the Long Term Support release. If it were me, I'd much rather support Ubuntu 16.10 for five years than 16.04, but of course most of what's great about 16.10 will be backported to 16.04 as well at some point. So if you were bitten by 16.04, but not bitten hard enough to want to get off the LTS bandwagon then sit tight, backports are on the way.
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+## Kernel 4.8
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+The biggest and best news to arrive with 16.10 is probably the move to Linux kernel 4.8.
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+kernel linux 4.8.0 support for pi3, supports NVidia pascal, ACPI low power mode, and skylake. Big news for anyone interested in video editing as well. USB camera and HDMI device capture.
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+Unity 8 and Mir are available, preview mode. Mir is still highly beta, and entirely optional. However it's now relatively easy to use, just login to a Mir/Unity 8 session. In fact it more or less mirrors where competitor project, Wayland was about a year ago for GNOME-based distros Wayland is pretty much ready to go. Or at least Fedora 25 is planning to use it, that could of course fall on its face. 
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+MATE 1.16 is GTK 3, so if you depend on GTK 3 apps MATE will now work much better, HiDPI support is also much much better. software boutique.
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+ - Unity 7.5 backported stuff from Nautilus. dpi doesn't appear to be backported
+ - high dpi is not on by default and doesn't autodetect
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+ It's fast. applications launch quickly, windows minimize quickly, suspend resumes quickly, boots fast, etc.