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Have you personally tried changing to xfce, gnome-shell or KDE in Ubuntu 11.10? I have, and it's decidedly non-trivial. Switching to a different distro would pr
by teach 15y ago
Have you personally tried changing to xfce, gnome-shell or KDE in Ubuntu 11.10? I have, and it's decidedly non-trivial. Switching to a different distro would probably be easier.
- stevenspasbo 15y agoI got gnome-shell up and working with no issues, but after a while I decided to just switch to Linux Mint, which I'm very happy with. Edit: I should say that is just on my MacBook Pro. I haven't switched on my development box yet because I'm in the middle of some projects and don't feel like having to reconfigure everything right now. By the way, has anyone tried the Ubuntu to Linux Mint upgrade?
- drivebyacct2 15y agoI remember `sudo apt-get install gnome-shell` and then choosing it at the next login and being quite smitten. (I later upgraded to ricotz's ppa for faster updates).
- teach 15y agoAgain, is this in 11.10? Or 11.04?
- onryo 15y agoI did this in 11.10, then switched back to unity because gnome-shell had some bugs that kept me from getting work done. I like it's interface design better, though.
- drivebyacct2 15y agoNot sure what issues you had, but 3.2 is getting some bugfixes and ricotz's ppa has some good fixes as well.
- drivebyacct2 15y agoSeeing as gnome-shell isn't available in 11.04... (don't use the PPA in 11.04, it will wreck your system).