Unity Interface sucks, Any alternatives

[sdavmor]

On 01/02/2012 11:18 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 2 January 2012 18:40, Johnny<candj01 at att.net>  wrote:
>> I am with you Alain. If you don't like Unity just log in as Gnome.
>
> That's not an option in 11.10 or later.
>
>> I don't
>> like Gnome it takes up to much desktop and I have a 27 inch monitor.
>
> I have two 21" monitors, myself. I find Unity takes /less/ space than
> GNOME 2 did.
>
> GNOME 2 is dead. No matter if you upgrade to 11.10 or do a clean
> install, GNOME 2 is removed. This will also be true in 12.04 - GNOME 2
> is not coming back.
>
> If you really want a two-panel desktop, then install Xubuntu. If you
> have already installed 11.10, then do:
>
> sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
>
> ... Or use Synaptic or the Software Centre, search for the
> "xubunto-desktop" package and install it and all its dependences. Then
> choose "Xubuntu" at the login screen.

I'm responding to this on a system on which I installed MATE, the 
Gnome2 fork a couple of weeks ago.  Works great.
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