Unity: Nothing can go wrong!

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Sun Apr 17 11:27:12 UTC 2011


On 17 April 2011 04:06, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> On 04/16/2011 10:52 PM, Samuel Thurston wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com>
> wrote:
>
> On 04/16/2011 07:23 PM, Samuel Thurston wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> I do personally know several people who have dumped Ubuntu, and moved to
>
> Debian stable.  Their argument being that they want a working system
> they can use, not something that they have to triage and fiddle with
> constantly.
>
> Ugh, never going back to debian stable, having 2-year old software
> isn't why I run linux. but I think we're going to see a mass exodus
> with this release.
>
>
> I've stayed away from 11.4 till now. I d'led the 64-bit image, burned a
> disk, and booted it. I had understood that Unity was default. Why did 11.4
> come up in Gnome 3? Do I have to install 11.4 to test it?!
>
> Fred
>
> I'm curious if you downloaded the daily build or the main beta image
> from ubuntu.com.  Either way this is a baffling development since
> gnome3 was never a serious contender for the 11.04 default desktop in
> my understanding.
>
>
> I appologize.....I said "3" but it isn't....current Gnome. I can't find any
> option for
> a Unity startup....no options at all. The image is the 64-bit iso from the
> Ubuntu site. The
> file name is: ubuntu-11.04-beta2-desktop-amd64.iso

It doesn't and you didn't get GNOME 3. You got GNOME 2.

Unity requires 3D compositing. They are working on a separate 2D
version but it's not ready yet.

The way it works is meant to be this:

 - if you have hardware 3D, you get Unity;
 - if you don't, you get GNOME 2.

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