After six months, I'm finally sick of the Unity Toolbar

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Douglas Saylor <absdoug at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm tired of the Unity toolbar. I gave it six months. In fact I liked
> the Unity toolbar at 1st. The IDEA was sound. I thought some issues
> would be addressed in 11.10 & they were not. I don't know how/why I
> put up with it so long though, it's terrible. I overshoot & out pops
> the toolbar, now BLOCKING the button I want to click. Same to close or
> minimize a windows. Oh & closing or minimize controls hidden &
> seemingly don't want to reappear till I button-mash. I know it's me.
> Maybe I need to get back on mood-stabilizer medication ...or maybe
> Unity & the toolbar just sucks like most people said from the get-go.
>
> I thought I'd give Debian another try, this time with "Testing" after
> a few people made some good points. My Acer Aspire One ZG5 wireless
> card was not recognized. Router is in the roommate's living room. I
> need it to JUST WORK. NEEEEXT! (I might add that Microsoft Windows
> fresh, generic install often doesn't "just work" with laptops, so this
> isn't a "Linux" knock)
>
> Tried to install Linux Mint. Downloaded the torrent via website link.
> From Ubuntu, used the .iso to make a start-up via USB /sigh ...install
> fails. Now trying Unetbootin from Microsoft Windows. Makes me sad I
> always end up, at some point, needing to boot into Windows in order to
> get certain things to JUST WORK. I, know, it's me, but I've been with
> Ubuntu Linux since 9.04 & I'm STILL using Microsoft? I'd have thought
> by now the Windows partition would never be used, possibly deleted.
> Nope, I seem to NEED Windows!? If I had money (see above AA1ZG5), I'd
> get a Mac & probably be very, very happy. I'd still have my AA1 with
> Linux of some sort, but if I had a Mac, would I bother to ever boot-up
> my AA1? I'd be a less hard core geek, but I'd be a happier, lesser
> geek I bet.
>
> To be fair, I did a clean install of Ubuntu 11.10 & that went without
> one hiccup. Not one. Everything seems to work. Except the toolbar. I'm
> kind of sad to leave Ubuntu. Unetbootin is calling me to reboot
> ...ttyl.


I think you should either try installing gnome-shell package in
Ubuntu, or clean install Xubuntu, or Kubuntu.


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