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[David Vincent]

On 05/04/2012 12:33 AM, Brian Burger wrote:
> Still a Unity skeptic, but I have a new computer I'm assembling this 
> weekend and I'll give 12.04's update of Unity a week or ten days to 
> convince me it's just not shiny pointless bling that killed off the 
> perfectly functional GNOME 2.x... I might even try GNOME Shell, 
> although playing with that on my brother's laptop hasn't convinced me 
> it's anything other than Unity with less hype behind it. Ah well, even 
> if it will initially be saddled with Unity the new machine is going to 
> be awesome. Shuttle box with Intel guts, i3 CPU, 8GB of RAM, a couple 
> TB of storage. New monitor and keyboard too. Spiffy new kit! Brian 


Linux Mint's MATE desktop might be worth a look.

http://mate-desktop.org/

http://mate-desktop.org/install/#ubuntu

I've run into some bugs but not many (Dropbox integration for instance 
is a bit spotty).

-d