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 ## Ubuntu 15.10
 
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 While Ubuntu 15.10 is unlikely to win any awards for innovation there are some very useful new features in the kernel update, a couple of UI changes for Unity and plenty of application updates, all of which make it well worth the update.
 
 The most notable UI changes in this release are the scrollbars, which are now pulled straight from GNOME 3. Canonical has abandoned its little disappearing "handle"-style scrollbars in favor of GNOME's defaults (which have improved considerably since Ubuntu started work on its own version). The change appears to based more on [code maintenance](https://plus.google.com/+WillCooke/posts/4WnzUY2PHix) and development effort than any strong aesthetic feelings from Canonical. It would seem that writing and maintaining your own scrollbar code is more work than it's worth. The visual change is minor and solves quite a few bugs in Canonical's home-grown scrollbars, making it a win for users as well as the programmers once tasked with maintaining the old code base. 
 
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 Abandoning the homegrown scrollbars might also mean that Unity is able to integrate upstream GNOME updates faster than it has been lately. With this release most of the GNOME suite of tools that powers much of Unity have finally been updated to 3.16, though a few holdouts like GEdit remain at much older versions.
 
 Aside from the scrollbars, there's not a lot of visual changes to this release. Unity itself gets a slight version bump with some bug fixes and a couple new features, including a new option to drag icons out of the Dash launcher and onto your desktop. If you were really missing the ability to clutter your desktop with something other than files, well, now you can throw some application launchers in there for good measure.
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 The release of Wily Werewolf brings updates for all of them, but perhaps none as big or impressive as Kubuntu 15.10. Kubuntu has always been one of the nicer KDE-based distros, but this release is particularly impressive. With Kubuntu 15.04 earlier this year, Kubuntu made the leap to Plasma 5, the next generation of KDE, but things were rough around the edges in my experience. Kubuntu 15.10 adds an impressive list of bug fixes and some added UI polish that make it one of the best KDE desktops available right now (the other standout being openSUSE Leap). This update features Plasma 5.4 and KDE Applications 15.08, which means the latest set of stock KDE apps and underlying tools you can get in a KDE distro. 
 
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 The new Breeze desktop with its flat, colorful, high-contrast look is what KDE refers to as a modernized interface, with "reduced visual clutter throughout the workspace."  For more details on what's new in Plasma 5, see Ars' [earlier review](http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/17/kde-plasma-5-for-those-linux-users-undecided-on-the-kernels-future/).
 
 Unfortunately Kubuntu 15.10 comes along with news that the lead developer of Kubuntu is [leaving the project](https://kubuntu.org/news/jonathan-riddell-stands-down-as-release-manager-of-kubuntu/). The good news is that he'll still be actively involved in KDE, but the bad news is he made some troubling accusations about Canonical's misuse of donations as the reason for his departure. Canonical has reportedly launched an internal audit to figure out what, if anything, went wrong.
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 Yes, the very thing that has made Ubuntu a tad boring lately -- as all development effort has been focused on Ubuntu Mobile and the new Unity 8 desktop -- is actually [relatively easy to install](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity8inLXC). It's still very buggy though, which is why it's available as an LXC container, which helps keep it fully isolated from your production machine. 
 
+[image="ubuntu1510-unity-8.png" caption="Unity 8 as a log in option. This is likely the approach Canonical will take at least for the first few releases -- Unity 8 as a separate log in option."]
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 I took it for a spin and, well, here's the thing about Unity 8: it's buggy and unstable, but it's getting really close. It's possible to experience what Canonical has in mind and it actually looks pretty great. 
 
 The real exciting part of Unity 8 though isn't on the desktop, but on Ubuntu Mobile and Canonical's vision of "convergence". Convergence, for Canonical, means the mobile device becomes, which the addition of a larger screen monitor, a full desktop PC. To make this possible Canonical has developed Unity 8, which will bring the same underlying code base to both the desktop and mobile versions of the OS.