Why not try Ultimate Edition of Ubuntu...

[Bruce Pieterse]

On Thu 27 Oct 2011 04:03:57 SAST, NoOp wrote:
> On 10/26/2011 06:43 AM, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
>> 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!
>>
>>
>
> Viola? Tell us how you manage your icons on those panels.
>
>

It seems we have also forgotten about elementaryOS - 
http://www.elementaryos.org/

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Best of luck,

Bruce