Best Alternative Operating System To Ubuntu?

[Rashkae]

On 06/27/2011 05:48 PM, Jesse Palser wrote:
>
> is not agreeing with my stomach.
>
> I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 64Bit now with classic gnome 2.3.
> I absolutely hate Unity desktop and Gnome 3 about the same.
> Force feeding a terribly designed desktop environment
> is a terrible policy and does not go well with the original values of 
> Ubuntu.
>
If you don't like Gnome 3, then you need an alternative to Gnome, not an 
alternative to Ubuntu.  True, some distros that aren't as fast to push 
new packages might still ship with Gnome 2 for another 6 months or so, 
but no one has yet stepped up to continue support and development of 
Gnome 2, so it's doomed to die.

I suggest trying Xubuntu if you like the desktop design that gnome has 
enjoyed the past several years.  If disk space system resources aren't 
an issue, you can even install gnome, compiz and AWN/Docky for the 
utilities and eye candy, while retaining all the great desktop 
functionality.