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

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Douglas Saylor <absdoug at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Ioannis Vranos
> <ioannis.vranos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>I think you should either try installing gnome-shell package in
>>Ubuntu, or clean install Xubuntu, or Kubuntu.
>
> Not sure what the advantage of Xubuntu over Mint is? Thanks1


Mint is maintained by hobbyists, and they do not provide updates for
all the used stuff.

Also, when I test-installed it, command line apt-get dist-upgrade was
showing there were updates, while the graphical update manager shew no
updates.

Mint is coming with GNOME by defaut.


Xubuntu on the other hand is an official Ubuntu distribution, with
XFCE as the default GUI.

One can get the same XFCE GUI in Ubuntu, by installing the
xubuntu-desktop metapackage.

In other words, Xubuntu has no additional packages, but only those
provided in Ubuntu repository.



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