How to install Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 11.04 and still have a stable system?

[Dotan Cohen]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 16:45, Amedee Van Gasse <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> For me, Linux is all about choice.
> Suppose I wanted to install Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 11.04, how would I do that? I
> have done my homework and used Google, but everything I found involves
> adding ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 to the repository, and included a warning that
> it will break Unity and that there was no downgrade path. But most of these
> things were at least 2 months old, so before 11.04 was released.
> I really want to have my cookie AND eat it, iow when I log in I want to
> choose between Gnome 3 today, Unity tomorrow, KDE the day after and Fluxbox
> the day after that.
>
> Anyone here who has successfully installed Gnome 3 on 11.04 and still has
> Unity?
>

Amedee, one of my users installed Xubuntu instead of Ubuntu for this
round. He is very satisfied though I myself have not looked at it. It
is very similar to Gnome he reports, and he says it is not sluggish
anymore (I did not even know that he felt Gnome was sluggish). In
truth he downloaded Xubuntu by accident as I actually recommened
Kubuntu, not Xubuntu!

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