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Been using it a couple weeks now, it's actually not too bad. Trying to get used to Unity as it's obviously not going anywhere. I'm still not a fan but it is imp

Been using it a couple weeks now, it's actually not too bad. Trying to get used to Unity as it's obviously not going anywhere. I'm still not a fan but it is improving.

thomaslutz 14y ago
If you liked Gnome2, try MATE with Linux Mint.
- rk0567 14y ago
  what about Cinnamon ? that is cool too.
chousuke 14y ago
How's the performace? I tried a beta of Quantal a couple weeks ago and Unity was so slow compared to vanilla Gnome that it wasn't really usable (I have a Radeon HD 3000 card, using the FOSS driver). I hope it's not that bad in the actual release.
- rk0567 14y ago
  I had the same experience until I enabled the proprietary driver for NVIDIA graphics card.
andyking 14y ago
I couldn't get used to Unity and didn't want to stick with the increasingly antiquated and patched-up 10.04, so I made the switch a while ago at home to Xubuntu. It's not the perfect desktop, but I've got it almost how I want it, and it largely gets out of my way. I particularly enjoy the two-second login time.
timmillwood 14y ago
Unity has really grown on me, when it first came out I switched to Xfce, also train Mate, Cinnamon, Gnome3 and KDE, they all seem a little dated now compared to Unity.
chrismorgan 14y ago
The first release with Unity, I tried it for several days before giving up. It was just too buggy with the Compiz configuration I wanted/needed for some things; as soon as I touched anything in the configuration or with certain configuration things enabled, it would crash and require a reboot/gdm restart. The second release I tried again. It almost passed muster, but it was still just too buggy. The third release I tried again. I never went back to the GNOME desktop. I love Unity. It's not perfect. In things related to keyboard shortcuts in particular it's still got a ways to go, but it is good. So much better than the GNOME 2 desktop. (I've never tried GNOME Shell, so I can't comment on it.)

Been using it a couple weeks now, it's actually not too bad. Trying to get used to Unity as it's obviously not going anywhere. I'm still not a fan but it is improving.

thomaslutz 14y ago

If you liked Gnome2, try MATE with Linux Mint.

rk0567 14y ago
what about Cinnamon ? that is cool too.

chousuke 14y ago

How's the performace? I tried a beta of Quantal a couple weeks ago and Unity was so slow compared to vanilla Gnome that it wasn't really usable (I have a Radeon HD 3000 card, using the FOSS driver). I hope it's not that bad in the actual release.

rk0567 14y ago
I had the same experience until I enabled the proprietary driver for NVIDIA graphics card.

andyking 14y ago

I couldn't get used to Unity and didn't want to stick with the increasingly antiquated and patched-up 10.04, so I made the switch a while ago at home to Xubuntu. It's not the perfect desktop, but I've got it almost how I want it, and it largely gets out of my way. I particularly enjoy the two-second login time.

timmillwood 14y ago

Unity has really grown on me, when it first came out I switched to Xfce, also train Mate, Cinnamon, Gnome3 and KDE, they all seem a little dated now compared to Unity.

chrismorgan 14y ago

The first release with Unity, I tried it for several days before giving up. It was just too buggy with the Compiz configuration I wanted/needed for some things; as soon as I touched anything in the configuration or with certain configuration things enabled, it would crash and require a reboot/gdm restart. The second release I tried again. It almost passed muster, but it was still just too buggy. The third release I tried again. I never went back to the GNOME desktop. I love Unity. It's not perfect. In things related to keyboard shortcuts in particular it's still got a ways to go, but it is good. So much better than the GNOME 2 desktop. (I've never tried GNOME Shell, so I can't comment on it.)