[ale] I really incredibly exponentially hate ubuntu unity

[Jeremy Bicha]

On 16 May 2012 19:47, Ron Frazier (ALE)
<atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was totally blown away by the number of replies to my original thread on
> this topic. I guess I really touched a nerve here. I want to thank everyone
> for all the information and hints they've shared. I can't really reply to
> all the replies directed at me, but will be looking over them again to see
> if any need a specific reply. I'm going to be archiving them all so I can
> refer to them if needed. Once Ubuntu 11.04 goes out of support, which I
> believe is Oct 2012, I will be forced to make some kind of change or have a
> more and more outdated system. I'll probably do what JD suggests below, ie
> install 12.04 and then the Gnome2 environment. I don't know exactly how yet,
> but I'll look it up later and perhaps test it in a VM. If that fails, I'll
> probably install Mint, or some of the more exotic options mentioned here. I
> believe Ubuntu 12.04 has support for 5 years. Wikipedia has a nice article
> on the subject which shows the various versions.

Unity is definitely improved in Ubuntu 12.04 and more customizable.
There's really not a good reason to continue using Ubuntu 10.10,
11.04, or 11.10 now; 10.04 LTS and 12.04 LTS are your only decent
Ubuntu options.

I did give an IRC talk 2 weeks ago as part of
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek entitled "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Users."

* You can look through the help to see how the UI works.
https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-help/
* You can install gnome-session-fallback and choose GNOME Classic (No
Effects) from the gear icon on the login screen to get a layout only
slightly more modern than the GNOME 2 look and feel you love. Just
hold down the Alt key to edit gnome-panel applets (which isn't that
much more difficult than unlocking applets like you used to have to
do).

http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/05/04/%23ubuntu-classroom.html#t15:00

Personally, I prefer to use GNOME Shell or Unity. Unity is a lot more
keyboard accessible than GNOME 2 ever was. You can hold down the Super
(Windows) key in Unity 12.04 to get hints of the keyboard shortcuts
available.

Jeremy Bicha