ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity and installing GNOME

[Fredrik Jonson]

Rajeev Prasad wrote:

>  Q1. is it possible to remove unity and HUD and install GNOME?

Yes.

 sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
 sudo apt-get purge unity

IIRC the meta-package ubuntu-desktop will implicitly have to be removed
too. AFAIC that is a entirely harmless option, despite a somewhat omnious
warning about uninstallation in the package description of ubuntu-desktop.

>  Q2. what apps/functionality will i loose?

Well, Unity of course. I'm not aware of any apps that depend specificly
on Unity, and apt-rdepends seems to agree with that conclusion.

I can't say that I'm convinced that gnome shell is all that much better
than unity. But at least gnome shell isn't a single vendor product.

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Fredrik Jonson