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

[Frank McCormick]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:48:03 +0000
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:23 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > Unity drives me nuts as well - worst desktop that I've *ever* used.
> 
> Not tried it myself. I quite liked the Netbook Remix interfaces in
> 9.10 and 10.04, although the latter had serious display problems on my
> Thinkpad X31. The 10.10 NBR will not launch at all - a process called
> "mutter" continuously crashes and restarts the whole WM. It's not even
> possible to cleanly log out.
> 
> I've filed it as a bug; no interest at all.
> 
> 
> Thus, I have grave concerns that a Unity-based Ubuntu will be at all
> usable on anything less than very recent hardware with a fairly
> capable, well-supported OpenGL accelerator.
> 
> > 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 suspect these may be the same sorts of issues.


  What can I say - Natty for me has proven to be a major disappointment. Unfortunately
I am running a MB with older video - 865 to be exact. The ONLY desktop I can get
under an updated Natty Alpha-2 is classic with no effects. Even them I get crash
notifications every few seconds...mostly related to the video-intel driver. I have stopped
reporting them because I was told developers have no intention of fixing them and that I
should deal with upstream. If nobody will fix, why bother including them - check the bug reports
on Video Intel and you'll see it's not only the 865 which is affected. Newer systems are also
experiencing problems.
I guess Maverick was the end of the line for me - I fear Ubuntu is going in the wrong direction...at least
for me it is. I also run on the same computer,Maverick (for me again a fine system) and Debian Sid. People
used to complain about Sid a lot...but at its' most unstable, it is proving more stable than Natty.

But I guess when major changes are made to systems, like is being done in Nattys case, we can expect
these problems and complaints.
 
-- 
Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca>