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Which is a pity when you think about how crappy and unfinished the unity UI in ubuntu 11.04 is. In years this is the first time I've stopped using a standard ub
by alextp 15y ago
Which is a pity when you think about how crappy and unfinished the unity UI in ubuntu 11.04 is. In years this is the first time I've stopped using a standard ubuntu (now I'm using Gnome 3, which is almost as bad).
- ilcavero 15y agoCorrection: Ubuntu WAS ready for prime time
- makepanic 15y agodito moved away from ubuntu and found crunchbang linux, because of unity
- DanBealeC 15y agoCrunchbang isn't great. It breaks regularly; it's pretty big; and there are weird dependency problems. Compare it to distributions like Slitaz or Tiny Core, both of which really are small.
- yellowbkpk 15y agoYou can disable Unity and switch back to Gnome 2 at login time. After you enter or click your username (before you enter your password) you can select which login session you want to use down at the bottom of the boot screen. If I remember correctly the default is "Ubuntu" but there is also a "Ubuntu - Classic" that sends you in to Gnome 2 rather than Unity.
- jerhewet 15y agoUnity is the incarnation of everything I hated (and worked hard to disable) in Windows 7. I rebooted and selected Ubuntu Classic as the default, and haven't looked back.
- alextp 15y agoAt an internship at MSR I recently used windows 7 for real, and after I got through the first week the general experience was maybe more pleasant than ubuntu with unity. Even things that annoyed me at first (grouping windows by program in the task bar, for example) grew slowly.
- suivix 15y agoYou should try out Mint Linux. It's basically a fork of Ubuntu with a much better UI (in my opinion).
- cdr 15y agoUbuntu moving to Unity and Gnome3 forced me to give Xubuntu a try; I like it ok. xfce is like a less-polished Gnome2.
- navs 15y agoI'm happy with Lubuntu and Xubuntu variants. Maybe give those a try.