First impressions of 11.04

[Jordon Bedwell]

On 4/24/2011 4:10 PM, ssc1478 wrote:
> I don't know yet if I will like Unity.  Will moving from X cause
> problems with the different window managers?

Not meant to cause problems, because Wayland is backwards compatible.

> I'm investigating options in case I don't like Unity.  I installed
> kubuntu a few days ago and had a go with it.  Maybe I would have
> gotten to the point where I liked it but gave up and uninstalled the
> many packages.  What I observed is that ubuntu has put its resources
> behind gnome, not kde.  So if in the future they are putting their
> resources behind unity, gnome will eventually lose the polish that it
> has today with ubuntu.  That's my opinion and admit that I could be
> wrong.

You can still use Classic Ubuntu (if I remember right) which is simply
GNOME 2x for now.  People should be well aware that recently GNOME 3 was
released which means eventually you will land on having an interface
like it anyways, that goes to say that Ubuntu might keep GNOME 2 for a
couple of releases considering they have Unity or they might triple up
to satisfy all.

> Today I installed Fedora on an old Thinkpad T41 that I have.  So far
> so good.  3D desktop works and so far no performance issues.

Fedora will be the first to have GNOME 3 in a production release.  It's
a Bleeding-Edge Distro, so you will come to face a Unity like interface
sooner on Fedora too.

> I don't know if I'll like fedora in the long run.

You never know if you'll like something unless you try it continuously
so try out other distros too, but remember a pure Debian/Ubuntu fan like
me will always point out the fact that you can select whether or not you
use Unity on your password input screen.  Simply select Ubuntu Classic
(if I remember right.)