[email protected] said: > When you know how to use the HUD and Customize Appearance it works much better > than most DE's and saves so much time over a menu based DE. But you can remove > it using apt-get remove and just replace it with another DE such as xfce or > kde.
> http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/doityourself-it-guy/diy-replace-ubuntu-unity-w > ith-a-different-desktop/742 The point is that I've spent literally years getting the (default) environment to where it's most productive for me. I want to upgrade, not start over. I shouldn't have to throw out everything and learn a whole new paradigm because someone thought it would be cool to throw away 30 years of user interface design and evolution to make everything look like a tablet. kde/xfce/fvmw/afterstep/motif/whatever = starting over. I don't have time for that. I'm using these systems for real work, not a media center to watch internet videos. (and yes, I've used all those at one time or anther - they all had reasons why I'm NOT using them anymore) If I'm doing a new install, fine. I'll take what it gives me and make it the way I like. But an upgrade shouldn't throw away what I've got and force a major change because someone else has a different opinion of "better". When I upgrade my 10.04 web/mail server is it going to throw away my sendmail setup and leave me with a Postfix environment that I'm going to have to fix? And yes, this is a serious question. When I upgraded my mythbuntu system from 10.04 -> 12.04 it didn't replace the xfce environment with Unity. Why should it when I upgraded this system? That's the rant. I have others (like who made the vim maintainer god and gave him the power to decide what colors to use? Vim supports colors, great. Leave them the $#@ off and provide sample configs). But I found a way to (mostly) restore my old environment by installing "gnome-session-fallback". My major concern now is Fusion support. I can't afford to move forward until I know that it will run on my Mac. (I need Windows and Linux on the same laptop. Because of filesystem issues running Linux on a Windows host doesn't work. And I've never had a Linux laptop that worked well all the time. The Mac "just works", and until now Windows and Linux both worked seamlessly in VMs.) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
