[olug] Heart attack after 11.04 upgrade

[Trent Melcher]

I like Mint, been using it for about a year and it is based on Ubuntu, and
they are sticking with the old Gnome and not going to incorporate Unity.

Trent

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Kim
Kirwan
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 11:49 PM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: Re: [olug] Heart attack after 11.04 upgrade

I would be interested in following along on your experiences with this
because I am a big user of EMC2, which sticks with the current Ubuntu LTS
version, now 10.04. So I use 10.04 LTS for everything, it's my primary
desktop.

And so with the "shenanigans" of Ubuntu lately, there have been some who
have mentioned that maybe the EMC2 group needs to be looking at another
distro, maybe Debian itself, or maybe Mint or PCLinuxOS. We probably won't
stray too far from the Debian root since everyone is used to it and Synaptic
(apt-get) is pretty hard to beat. Or conversely, maybe Ubuntu will get it
together by the time 12.04 LTS comes around, and no change will be
necessary. (I see that Mint is #2 on the Distrowatch list and poised to take
over #1 from Ubuntu, so there must be some "shoppers" looking around for
alternatives.)

Please keep posting on this, or start a blog if you get to feeling like
you're ranting, some of us are very interested.

Thanks


On 06/27/2011 11:15 PM, Obi-Wan wrote:
> I just finished upgrading my desktop box from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 
> today, and the first time I logged in, I almost went into cardiac 
> arrest.  I can't express how badly I hate the new Gnome environment.
> What are my options?  Is it possible to reconfigure this new POS to 
> behave like the previous version?  Has KDE gotten any more user 
> friendly in the 2 years since I last gave up on it?  Are there other 
> viable options?
> 

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