[ubuntu-za] Nasty Narwhal what a disappointment

Wikus wikus at cheetah-microsystems.com
Sat Apr 30 17:39:12 UTC 2011


Hallo Nico ,

I felt the same about unity , until I took the time to work through the
power guide and actually learn it. It is actually very powerful and nice
to use.

Here's the full guide I worked through :

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/4795149014/the-power-users-guide-to-unity



-- 

MaZaL
Fan of Ubuntu



On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 19:26 +0200, Nico Michael (pta at ibst) wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> I had installed Ubuntu 10:10 on my laptop and quite a few applications
> 
> I then got the ubuntu-11.04-alternate-i386 ISO file and burned a CD and successfully verified the CD.
> 
> I believed it would upgrade my Linux.
> I then booted from this CD believeing it would upgrade my Ubuntu 10:10 to Natty Narwhal
> Only to find out it wiped out my entire installation.
> 
> To add salt to the wound the main menu is lost  and I could not figure out how to get it back
> 
> I installed crossover for Linux and the Microsoft Office 2007
> In the previous version I could add buttons on the top for MS word and Excel however I could not figure how to do that .
> 
> I could not even create an icon on the desktop for Word
> 
> I hate this thing on the left as I have to search for Word every time I want to  run MS Word
> 
> Is there a way to recover the main menu and to get ikons on the desktop?
> 
> Alternatively is there a way to downgrade the desktop back to Ubuntu 1010  ?
> 
> regards
> Nick
> 




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