By contrast, I am struggling to get rid of this horrible Unity thing and get Gnome Shell. Ubuntu is pulling a Microsoft by using its clout to push a product and kill another; they can make Unity default, but they've actively removed Gnome Shell to the tune of ...well the PPAs all say "THIS CAN BREAK YOUR SYSTEM!!!" Scariness. So the lesson here is that rather than see Ubuntu users go to Gnome Shell, they're making them leave, which is higher impedence and so the number of users who will migrate off Ubuntu is a subset of those who would instal Gnome Shell. Another subset is people like me who now have 80% of the desktop environment coming out of a PPA. The Gnome developers are also upset at Canonical. No idea why. <blockquote type="cite">On Apr 29, 2011 9:01 PM, "Chris Jones" <<a href="mailto:chrisjones@comcen.com.au">chrisjones@comcen.com.au</a>> wrote: Just a quick congrats on the 11.04 release. I was previously running Fedora and openSUSE because I was angry with the previous state of Ubuntu. Yet the 11.04 release has made me return. Well done to all the developers and all others involved to make such an awesome release possible. Cheers and regards. -- PHOTO RESOLUTIONS - Photo - Graphic - Web C and L Jones - Proprietors ABN: 98 317 740 240 WWW: <a href="http://photoresolutions.freehostia.com" target="_blank">http://photoresolutions.freehostia.com</a> @: <a href="mailto:chrisjones@comcen.com.au">chrisjones@comcen.com.au</a> or <a href="mailto:photoresolutions@comcen.com.au">photoresolutions@comcen.com.au</a> <a href="mailto:cjlinuxfox@gmail.com">cjlinuxfox@gmail.com</a> Command lines and Linux terminals are my comfort zone! OS: Ubuntu 11.04 System: Linux 2.6.38 x86_64 Desktop: Unity OS: Windows XP System: x86 Desktop: Professional SP3 OS: FreeBSD 7.3 System: 7.3-RELEASE-p3 i386 Server: WebUI+putty -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </blockquote>