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Gnome-shell user here. Ubuntu's not for me, mostly because they cannot give me 'vanilla' software easily. They started with smaller changes (the notification p
by darklajid 15y ago
Gnome-shell user here.
Ubuntu's not for me, mostly because they cannot give me 'vanilla' software easily. They started with smaller changes (the notification patches come to my mind here) and now push their own agenda of a shell.
I'm still having some issues with gnome-shell, but I'm sure they'll be fixed. At least I'm sure that this is software that is maintained by the Gnome guys (I trust their code quality more, again due to the notification patch issues in the past) and - this is the big one - I don't want to use an interface that is distribution dependent.
I can easily use gnome-shell on a variety of different machines. Unity is a Ubuntu only (? Did any other distribution think about including this thing at all? Why would they?) UI and therefor a fail in my open source rule book.
- irahul 15y agoYou always have the option to use classic gnome with Ubuntu. That's what I use. I am not particularly thrilled with the idea of taking a netbook interface and slapping it on regular users. I tried it, didn't like it,switched back to classic.
- rbanffy 15y agoYou can always opt for traditional Gnome (Shell will be available on 11.10). It's a one-time change (you choose it on login) and works well. You'll never have to look at Unity again. And, of course, you can run Debian or Fedora or any other distro you want.