Some questions about the switch to Unity in 11.04

[Anthony Papillion]

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So I've finally, through lots of therapy, accepted that Canonical has
ditched GNOME Shell and will run Unity instead as of the 11.04 release.
But I've been hearing some conflicting things that I'm wondering if any
of you can clarify:

1. Does running Unity really mean I will not be able to trade out my
desktops? What happens if I don't like it and want to use XFCE instead?
Someone said, because of the tight Mutter connection, I won't be able to.

2. What kind of performance hit can we reasonably expect? I'm running
older hardware (1.6Ghz dual core AMD Sempron with 3GB memory). Will I
need to abandon Ubuntu or will my hardware man up and make it?

3. Is this a test run for Unity on the desktop or is this the final
decision? Has Canonical decided GNOME is out?

Thanks!
Anthony

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