Why not try Ultimate Edition of Ubuntu...

[Liam Proven]

On 27 October 2011 21:40, Bruce Pieterse <octoquadza at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/

Interesting - not met that remix before. Looks nice but the reviews
are very mixed.

Either way, though, it can't stay with GNOME 2, because it's dead now.
The Mate desktop might be able to continue development but it's too
early to say for sure. Trinity - the KDE3 fork - died young, I
believe.

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