Thanks so much for all this great work on mycroft this is a really awesome project. I heard about it a little while back on the podcast.init podcast. I finally got around to installing ubuntu on my wife’s old laptop and then mycroft. I am still a bit new to linux so please forgive me if i ask any odd questions.
I did get up and running with the CLI.
Something that I am having trouble sorting out here on the forum is exactly which desktop extension to try. There are two listed in this post here https://community.openconversational.ai/t/gui-connected-with-mycroft-core/1154. one of the projects says its for gnome desktop, does that mean it won’t run on Unity? The other seems to be something web based.
In the Linux world you have a lot of desktop environments to choose from. We have: Kde, Gnome, Mate, Unity, xfce, cinnamon, budgie, pantheon and I’m probably forgetting some yet. Ubuntu runs unity by default and as far as I know there is no desktop integration with unity yet but you can install the one you want but I wouldn’t recommend it if you don’t have a lot of experience.
Would I would recommend you do is install Ubuntu Gnome which already comes preinstalled with Gnome on Ubuntu ubuntugnome.org there you could install the Gnome extension or you could install kubuntu and install the kde plasmoid