Oh, please, please, COME ON Ubuntu development people!

[Tom H]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 April 2011 00:45, chris <chevhq at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 23:19 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>>> On 16 April 2011 20:52, chris <chevhq at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Don't you think it would be nice to move this to sounder.  I am having
>>>> trouble getting my wheelchair over here.
>>>
>>> We can't. The Powers that Be have just shut it down.
>>>
>> True, which makes me wonder about the whole Ubuntu/Canonical thing.
>> Fortunately as you know well, there are other distros, I am at the
>> moment playing with PCLinux OS, and Denbian stable.  On my production
>> machine I am switching to Mint 10.04.2 for the mean time whilst I see
>> what happens with Canonical.
>
> I've been looking into what Clem Lefebvre is planning for Mint 11.
> Apparently, it will be based on GNOME 3, but with the traditional
> panel layout - no GNOME Shell. I didn't even realise this was
> possible, TBH. That certainly sounds like it will be worth a look for
> those who like neither Unity nor the GNOME Shell, or whose hardware
> isn't up to running them in their full composited glory.
>
> There is also now a second Debian-based Mint, to go with LMDE, the
> Linux Mint Debian Edition, which currently uses a GNOME 2-based
> desktop. There is now Linux Mint Xfce 201104 as well, which like LMDE
> is also based directly off Debian and not Ubuntu.
>
> There are more options opening up for people who wish to leave Ubuntu,
> Unity and GNOME 3 but keep the Debian base and the power of apt-get
> and dpkg.
>
> I'm not planning to decamp just yet myself. I'm intrigued by Unity. I
> am playing with it in a VM and whereas I don't find it an obvious or
> intuitive environment, I will certainly give it a try on native
> hardware when it's released.

Ubuntu 11.04 has the "classic" desktop ("Ubuntu Classic") and GNOME 3
has a legacy/fallback mode so if you don't like the new interfaces,
you can choose to use the old ones. Maybe Mint'll have the
legacy/fallback mode enabled by default.

Unity might require a *little* effort to get used to it but it's good interface.