I was 11 when I took this screenshot - Ubuntu 14.04 running on my very first (incredibly bad) PC. As I recall, I couldn't install Windows 7 without a DVD drive, and that was out of my budget :p
Pretty sure I had it riced out with the Compiz cube and everything.
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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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To this day no DE does Global Menu/Window Buttons integrated in the panel as well as Unity.
Not even KDE.
Exactly. Mate tried emulating this behaviour, but it wasn't very successful.
As far as I know Ubuntu had to patch a lot of packages to make it work properly. I guess no one has the manpower to do that for such a niche feature.