[11.04]-Turn Off Unity & Use Classic Gnome?

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Jesse Palser <SLNTHERO at aol.com> wrote:
> On 02/14/2011 10:23 PM, NoOp wrote:
>>
>> On 02/14/2011 07:11 PM, Jesse Palser wrote:
>>>
>>> [11.04]-Turn Off Unity&  Use Classic Gnome?
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Been using Ubuntu for about 2 years now.
>>> I'm very concerned about this switch to Unity desktop.
>>>
>>> How hard would it be to turn off Unity and use classic Gnome?
>>> Perhaps this could be an option during install of Ubuntu?
>>>
>>> I think forcing Unity onto people is a bad idea...
>>>
>>> Jesse
>>>
>> Unity drives me nuts as well - worst desktop that I've *ever* used.
>>
>> When you log in, select the username. At the bottom of the screen you
>> can select which desktop you'd prefer to use. On my HP G60 laptop I
>> found that using 'Ubuntu Classic Desktop' crashes and causes multiple
>> issues (I've not bothered to file bug reports yet as I only boot into it
>> every few days). The only way that I can get a reliable gnome desktop is
>> to use 'Ubuntu Classic Desktop (No Effect)'. That, for me is reasonably
>> stable.
>>
>
> I'm starting to think that I should skip 11.04
> and use 10.10 until 11.10 is released.
>
> I have no interest in using Unity.

You do realise that you can only upgrade from one release to the next?
Excepting LTS releases.

You can't go 10.10 -> 11.10, you need to go 10.10->11.04->11.10.

You could stick with 10.04 (as I am doing for now) and then go to
12.04, which should be the next LTS release.

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