Why not try Ultimate Edition of Ubuntu...

[Bruce Pieterse]

On Fri 28 Oct 2011 01:07:18 SAST, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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.
>

As far as I can remember the next version of elementaryOS will be based 
on 12.04.

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Best of luck,

Bruce