[olug] Heart attack after 11.04 upgrade

[John Serafino]

While there are a some things I don't like about the new GUI, there are also
a few things I do like. The default "app" search is something I have gotten
used to and like in some ways. I do not, however, like the fuzziness of the
sidebar. I honestly don't much care if the bar is on the bottom or side,
it's just that it seems to cleverly hide itself whenever I want to be using
it and get in the way when I'm doing something else. The top bar being
"window relative" is something I can live with, but I probably wouldn't have
recommended the change.

I'm liking Ubuntu less and less as it becomes more "use friendly" and less
flexible/powerful. I'm still trying out new distro's from time to time,
although I haven't tried mint since back when it was just Ubuntu with a
Windoze Vista style menu. I may give it a go again, as I still want
something Debian based. Apt-get not being expendable has already been
mentioned.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:14 AM, George De Bruin <sndchaser at gmail.com>wrote:

> Friends do not let (nor encourage) friends to use LXDE.  Do you really hate
> Ben that much? :)
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:57 AM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > LXDE is also an option for those of you looking for a lightweight
> desktop.
> >
> > If you looked at KDE 2 years ago using Ubuntu repositories, I'm sure it
> > wasn't pretty. Kubuntu had the worst, most broken implementation of KDE
> 4.x
> > out there. It has gotten better. It is certainly worth looking at.
> >
> > The problem is that Ubuntu treats KDE like a second-class citizen, so a
> lot
> > of the features they develop for Ubuntu never make it to Kubuntu.
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Jon Larsen <jon at jonlarsen.us> wrote:
> >
> > > Just curious - did you install the gnome3 packages after you upgraded
> or
> > > are you using the default Unity packages?
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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John