Why not try Ultimate Edition of Ubuntu...

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Tue, October 25, 2011 19:59, Rashkae wrote:
> On 10/25/2011 01:49 PM, Larry Shields wrote:
>> *Yes but it sure beats Unity...They are allways upgrading too...
>>
>> Larry
>> *
>>
> I'm as.. disappointed with Unity as anyone.  But ducking your head in
> the sand and downgrading to a year old distro is not going to fix
> anything, only defer the problem to another day.  Sooner or later,
> you'll have to wake up and realize and Gnome 2 doesn't exist anymore,
> and need to decide what to do with your desktop next.

There's always Gnome 3 and `sudo apt-get install gnome-shell`