Why not try Ultimate Edition of Ubuntu...

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Wed, October 26, 2011 06:31, Sandy Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Cybe R. Wizard
> <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> You (we all) need to stop focusing so much on Unity and realize that
>> Ubuntu (still a fine distro even though they've done some remarkably..
>> unlikely things) has other options  There's KDE (spit, spit), XFCE4 and
>> LXDE all of which have not followed in the Unity debacle.
>
> Why on Earth isn't there a Gubunutu with the gnome desktop?

All you need to do, is open an console and hammer the following keystrokes
on your keyboard:

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell


Log out, choose Gnome, log in, voila!