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[rikona]

Hello Colin,

Friday, November 11, 2011, 1:14:20 PM, Colin wrote:

> On 11 November 2011 20:58, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>> Hello Alan,
>>
>> Friday, November 11, 2011, 6:23:56 AM, Alan wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/11/11 14:00, Chris Jeffries wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone point me to a decent set of notes showing how I can do easily
>>>> in Unity all the things I could easily do in Gnome 2. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> This depends on what things you did easily in GNOME 2.
>>
>>> However how about:-
>>
>>> http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/4795149014/the-power-users-guide-to-unity
>>
>>> Which contains _loads_ of links to guides and how-to's about unity.
>>
>> Hmmm... that seems to have 171 links to all kinds of stuff - making
>> money at home, stuff in other languages, etc, but not Unity. I did
>> look at other parts of the blog, and there is Ubuntu stuff there, but
>> it seems oriented to developers. It did have a nice picture of you,
>> though - I can see why you like the site. :-)

> Very strange, different people seem to be seeing different pages for
> some reason.  I see a page headed Joge's stompbox and The Power User's
> Guide to Unity, then within the body the first link is Tips and Tricks
> for Unity
> (http://askubuntu.com/questions/36274/tips-and-tricks-for-unity)
> and then progresses to a link to the official Unity homepage and then
> on through loads of unity related links.

Aha - that site does have some relevant info. Off to the side there's
an item asking 'what's the advantage of Unity over Gnome 2.'
Interesting question I'd like to know the answer to. But -
unfortunately the topic is 'closed' with no content. Hmmm... maybe
there isn't any advantage? :-))

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 rikona