I gave up the gnome/unity ubuntus and tried xubuntu. I prefer installing other items on an as needed basis.
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Eric Andre <[email protected]> wrote: > I feel your pain. I've been having the same issues. For some reason Ubuntu > 10.10 just worked best for me. I recently tried arch, which was great until > the first update when everything broke. Had no luck with mint 11-12. I have > yet to try fedora, but it seems like all the big Linux distros are all > headed into the same terrible direction. > On May 3, 2012 12:42 PM, "Russ Crawford" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> After my happy experience with Ubuntu 10.10, I thought I would never want >> to move from Ubuntu 10.10. I did not want to get into Unity. >> >> Then support for 10.10 ended. OK I get the message about LTS. >> >> I moved backwards - to 10.04. Slower than 10.10. OK let's try 11.04. >> >> After doing a clean install of 11.04 and changing to Ubuntu Classic GUI, >> still slow. >> >> OK, 12.04. Absolutely no way to use Gnome that I have found. >> >> Lord, I miss Fedora, with its option of pre-selecting apps at >> installation time. >> >> I read about MATE and saw comments about problems re: mixing Ubuntu and >> Mint repos. My repo maintenance is bad enough now. >> >> LinuxMint? I installed it and spent about 2 minutes wondering "Where is >> everything - er - anything?" >> >> I am beginning to appreciate the "stability" of the Windows and OSX GUIs. >> >> Forget CLI. I am getting close to using pebbles in leather pouches for >> accounting and management systems. >> >> Backup and e-mail are going to be a bear. >> -- >> Russ Crawford >> 615-506-4070 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@** >> googlegroups.com <nlug-talk%[email protected]> >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** >> group/nlug-talk?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
