Time for LTS (was: Re: [Discussion/Opinion] Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Stay On GTK/GNOME 3.8?)

[Erick Brunzell]

On 10/03/2013 02:21 AM, Joseph Godino wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think that Ubuntu integrates GNOME into Unity. Over the summer I was
> testing Ubuntu 13.04 with GNOME classic and I noticed some minor
> differences between a pure GNOME and GNOME integrated with Unity. For
> example, to close an application window in GNOME the x is on the right
> side of the window. In GNOME integrated with Unity the x is on the left
> side of the screen. There are other minor differenced too. Another thing
> I noticed is that Ubuntu ships with Thunderbird instead of Evolution and
> Thunderbird was integrated into the GNOME classic application bar. So
> for complete GNOME experience use Ubuntu GNOME.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joe
>
>
>

Right, it's possible to get close to pure GNOME beginning with Ubuntu,
but why spend the time tweaking so much when Ubuntu GNOME provides
almost 100% of what I want out-of-box ;^)

I've also found mutter to run well on boxes where compiz fails
miserably. And, while "flashback" is a bit of a mess ATM in 13.10, I
have found that I can usually install Ubuntu GNOME on boxes that require
metacity and then use a tty on first boot to install the
'flashback-session'.

Lance