On 04/29/2011 05:43 AM, Marc Fouquet wrote:
If Ubuntu sticks with Unity, do you think that there is a chance we
might see a "Gubuntu" distribution, similar to Kubuntu and Xubuntu in
the long run?
I got used to Ubuntu, so I don't like to switch to another distro. But
I tried Natty/Unity yesterday and didn't like it - at least in its
current form. Installing Gnome 3 from an experimental PPA does not
appear like a long-term solution either.
Regards,
Marc
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I have no authority to speak on Canonical's behalf, but knowing how they
work, I don't think this would happen officially. I'm pretty sure that
there will be at lease one third-party Ubuntu flavor that uses the
default GNOME 3 desktop, however, as there's a reasonably large demand
for it.
I used to use Ubuntu for a while (from 7.10 to 10.04 actually), and I
can sympathize with your position. After they changed things around a
little too much for my liking, I decided to give a more "upstream"
distribution (relative to Ubuntu) a try. Right now I'm using Arch Linux,
and while it's a little confusing to set up at first, it runs like a
dream and it taught me all about how my OS works while I set it up,
something that you don't get from more GUI-oriented distros like Ubuntu.
As a second choice, though, I highly recommend Fedora/OpenSUSE. They're
both great distros that incorporate the GNOME 3 desktop without patching
it to oblivion like Ubuntu would have (funny thing about that: my
vanilla GNOME 2 desktop, after switching from Ubuntu a while ago, was
actually less buggy than Ubuntu's patched-up version).
After all, if you disregard the package manager, most distributions are
incredibly similar on the GUI level. I highly suggest giving another
distro a try, at least on a Live CD (and don't forget to read
documentation), before trying to use GNOME 3 on Ubuntu; last I heard it
breaks a lot of things because of Ubuntu's packaging.
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