Hi Guys!
Getting back the gnome-2-ish look for Ubuntu 12.04 is really easy:
$ sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback
My laptop and desktop run Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) and Gnome 2
allows me to be very productive. However, I wanted to see if another
box, that will primarily be running Zoneminder, would be tolerable with
Unity. With the addition of ClassicMenu Indicator, Unity UI is usable.
Canonical went to Unity to have a single UI for desktops, tablets
and phones. This is a terrible idea, as demonstrated by the horrible
windows mobile/CE PDAs and phones, and by the manner in which Apple used
IOS for small devices and Mac OSX for computers. Even Microsoft
developed Metro for their new phones (but have foolishly tried to slap
it onto their Windoze8 desktops). Unity has driven many people to Mint
Linux or CentOS. If Ubuntu offered another official derivative (
http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/derivatives ) using Gnome 2,
I would expect it to eclipse all of the other versions. Gnome 3 is
absolutely beautiful, but is a regression from a productivity standpoint.
Aloha,
-Jeff
On 03/20/2012 07:47 AM, Peter Besenbruch wrote:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:15:31 -0700 (PDT)
Julian Yap<julian_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I've been a long time desktop Linux user but the recent Gnome3 and Unity has
soured my hopes of the future.
I encountered my Linux desktop crisis with the transition to KDE4. Running
Debian Lenny helped put it off for a while. With Squeeze the issue was the use
of the not quite ready for prime time KDE4.4 and the ruination of the KDEPIM
packages. Thus began a transition to Ubuntu Lucid or Mint Isadora with XFCE.
A similarly equipped Debian runs faster and requires less RAM than either
Ubuntu or Mint, though.
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