You need to simply try it out. I don't think Debian will choose Unity instead of Gnome... (I'm personally very positive of this... but that is only my serious belief)
anyway, I need to consider carefully abandoning Ubuntu. I'm sure they will keep supporting Gnome. Nevertheless, I stared a long time ago with RedHat7 (2 years), then Mandrake, then Fedora, then Mandrake again (3 years), then Ubuntu (2 months) and, for the last 4 years, Debian. And I must say Debian really rules. But Ubuntu is also very good. I'dd suggest you try out Debian for some weeks. On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 12:09 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > Greetings. > > On several laptops and desktops, I made the transition from Fedora -> > Ubuntu about 3 years ago. I did that mainly because Fedora updates > kept "breaking" the Nvidia proprietary video drivers and the > developers openly said that they didn't really care whether or not > their distribution had drivers that could work with the hardware. > Ubuntu developers at least recognized the problem and have a > repository for commercial/addon drivers and they try to make sure the > OS doesn't break the video drivers. > > Anyway, I just learned that in the next Ubuntu, they are adopting the > "Unity Desktop". I did some checking on that and I totally hate it. I > hate Mac GUI and am disgusted that the free/open movement pushes to > imitate it. If I liked the look/feel of it, then I might be willing > to put up with the pains of transition in the next Ubuntu, but, well, > I don't. They say they will have other desktop options, but, in my > experience, it will be tough to avoid the packaging and configuration > changes that they enforce on everybody in order to make Unity work > (maybe I'm too skeptical). > > Can I escape Ubuntu to Debian? > > 1. Is Debian defaulting to the Unity Desktop too? (please say no) > > 2. How can I make a transition to Debian from Ubuntu? So I need to > change my apt repositories and then do what else? If glibc or the > kernel headers are new, I'll have to recompile everything I've built, > but that's OK. > > 3. If I make this change Ubuntu -> Debian, will I end up back in > "Nvidia Hell" where the OS updates frequently break the > commercial/proprietary video drivers? I understand that nouveau is > providing reasonable 2D for Nvidia cards, but my job requires the 3D > support that seems available only from the commercial driver. > > I'm not trolling, not trying for a flame war here. If you like Unity, > more power to you. If you like Ubuntu, OK, it has been good for me > too. > > PJ > > > > -- > Paul E. Johnson > Professor, Political Science > 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 > University of Kansas > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1295348570.2398.4.ca...@squeeje.critical.pt