How to move Unity from Compiz to something more human?

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In general, I tried different DE, everything is not right after Unity for me. It became very close. But there is such a jamb there - on Intel's vidyaha in a laptop, you have to forcibly get rid of tearing by turning on triple buffering and other delights. Sobsno, because of this, the laptop begins to puff and boil, anyhow to please the negligent me and save me from the nasty ladder. Even at idle, the noise from the cooler and the hot air from the exhaust system are much higher and hotter than, say, on a Fedora 31, where it’s already a gnome with Wayland, and the core is fresh.
And I had a question, is it possible to translate Unity into something like Compton. I messed with XFCE like this about 5 years ago, and the method worked. At the moment, I can’t find intelligible information in the search engine, perhaps because no one likes this Unity and it didn’t fucking give up to anyone.
I tried almost all popular DE at the moment. None of them fully answers my modest requirements.
- MATE - Cleverly done, I approve the concept of the second gnome, but there is a tirig there, like Unity, and for the same reason
- I didn’t try XFCE personally, but recently a friend tried to take it on a relatively new laptop. He's not happy with him. They say there is tiring and he eats like sneakers
- KDE 5 - I have an inherent dislike for everything that is written in QT, partly because of the design. You can make quite a “candy” with it, since there are a lot of tutorials on YouTube, due to the lack of taste it came in handy for me, but anyway, it looks like a crutch, there are so many settings that it makes me sick. It turns out that it’s not the system that works for you, but you for the system, while you climb in the jungle of switches and master the difference in the design of GTK and QT. And they fell relatively often (about three times in 2 hours, as I used them)
- Cinnamon - so far turned out to be the most adequate of all. There is no Wayland, some other crap, but there is no tearing, the laptop is cold. There is no Global Menu there, which is frustrating. Perhaps, if I didn’t know Unity, I would consider it the best solution. Although it also fell when I tried to change the icon pack.
- GNOME - was supposed to be my logical replacement for Unity, but turned out to be that shit. Cumbersome, gluttonous, sometimes sluggish, very clumsy something that combines a pile of controversial interface elements. These thick window frames, titles, animation friezes (and, as I read, almost everyone has them, regardless of the hardware capacity). Customization occurs through an incredible number of crutches, the same Gnome Extensions half are not relevant for the latest version 3.34. Everything is kind of terrible, and I have a monitor in my laptop with a standard resolution of 1366x768, and what was my surprise when I poked at the clock and got a window almost on the floor of the screen, in which a small calendar clogged in the corner, and a hefty frame around. I can not find words to describe the whole range of emotions that I received) Unforgettable.

The rest of the DEs I do not consider appropriate for consideration, since they are minimally similar to DE, more like window managers, or whatever they are (openBox, i3wm, and friends).

It probably looks very ridiculous, but with the transition to a new position, as you can see, I had more free time, and I decided that it was worth trying to solve this issue before I was dragged into a routine. The laptop will act as a working machine, in the truest sense. Even more time will be spent behind it than before, and I want to make this very time more comfortable and productive. Therefore, the question is, is it possible to somehow update the Unity environment? Or to suffer on some other until, along with blood and snot, it becomes habitual?

Answer 1

Some time has passed since the start of the post on the network, British scientists conducted research and found out that not a single potion heals, life is a fog, a horse is a fool.
But seriously, there is no solution. I didn't really achieve anything with my crooked hands. I decided to look after the unloved KDE - usable, but far from ideal. What I'm doing so far is such a controversial exhaust:
1 - Update hardware (in particular, a video card) on a PC for those who like Unity on an nVidia card and install a proprietary driver. I tested it on my GTX 1050 in a hospital - there is no tearing. Open firewood, at least on intel - fiasco. Turn on triple buffering and wait for Unity to die soon.
2 - Overpower and get down on progressive DE. Like Gnome or KDE. I installed Tumbleweed on the openSUSE laptop for testing, rolled up sneakers, found a tutorial on YouTube on turning sneakers into poppy, did it - it turned out something, but it works. In my humble opinion, sneakers are a head taller than a gnome. I’ll justify this with little things, such as an unrealistic number of settings and a bunch of various little things, like a notification about copying a file / folder on the panel, in which, in addition to indicating the process itself, more detailed information also flies out, such as the copy path, speed, etc. More concise notifications than in the gnome, the absence of horse frames for all windows in the system, the presence of the Global menu.

Here is a collective farm

In any case, there is no single universal way out of the situation.

Answer 2

Unity 8 does not use Compiz :-)
A year ago I myself was looking for a replacement, but then it became clear from the discussions on the forums of my comrades in misfortune that this was not suitable for permanent work. Perhaps now the situation has changed for the better.