"Project leader Rudra Saraswat, who created the Unity Remix project in 2020 to rescue the replaced-by-GNOME interface from obscurity when he was just 10 years old, suddenly has other things on his plate. Now a teenager, Saraswat is busy with his studies and simply can't dedicate the time to keep Unity operating properly. "We can't blame him for that," Adamietz noted in his post. At the end of the day, however, "Unity is broken and needs to be fixed," he added."
"According to Adamietz, Saraswat's busy schedule contributed to Unity, an official Ubuntu flavor since 2022, missing its planned release for Ubuntu 25.10 earlier this month due to the discovery of "critical bugs that prevented us from marking the ISO as ready." Adamietz noted that the most recent Ubuntu Unity ISOs haven't been tested by humans and have just been automatically generated, meaning that the bugs are piling up as the underlying Ubuntu OS changes."
""These bugs are also present when you upgrade from 25.04 to 25.10 or try to install the Unity desktop on top of another flavor," Adamietz added. In other words, the project is heading for the lands of well-and-truly-broken abandonware if someone won't step in and help. Don't look to Adamietz or other members of the Unity project to keep things going, though: He admits he simply doesn't have the skills needed to keep an entire distro moving."
Unity Remix was created in 2020 by Rudra Saraswat to preserve the Unity desktop after GNOME replaced it. Saraswat is now a teenager focused on studies and cannot maintain Unity. The project missed the Ubuntu 25.10 release due to critical bugs that prevented marking the ISO as ready. Recent ISOs were auto-generated and untested, causing accumulating bugs as Ubuntu evolves. Upgrades and fresh installs reproduce the issues. Team members Maik Adamietz and Tobiyo Kuujikai lack the technical/developer skills to maintain the distribution. The wider Ubuntu community is being asked to help.
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