[ale] Fwd: Re: I really incredibly exponentially hate ubuntu unity

Ron Frazier (ALE) atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com
Thu May 17 14:39:28 EDT 2012


Thanks for the note Jeremy.  The info in your message and in your chat should help when I upgrade.

Ron



>
>Jeremy Bicha <jeremy at bicha.net> wrote:
>
>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 more and more outdated system.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
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