Ubuntu 11.10 makes Unity compulsory

[David Gerard]

On 3 April 2011 14:23, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> From a listmember's Twitter (HT to Dave Gerard)...
> http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/ubuntu-1110-will-not-ship-with-classic.html
> This is news to me. Even from the beta in a VM, I can tell you, the
> Natty version of "classic GNOME" isn't. And Unity 2D is thus far so
> unfinished it's not even in the repos yet, which amazes me; I'm
> honestly surprised it's considered ready to ship when it doesn't fall
> back if no 3D acceleration is available...


I'm seriously considering Debian Sid if Unity isn't considerably
improved by then. (And if I can get a nonfree wifi driver for this
netbook.)

I still don't understand the weird step backwards in actual usability
from UNR in 10.04 (last I used it) to Unity in 11.04.


- d.