<p>The sooner you suffer through the migration to gnome 3, the faster you will gain proficiency.<br>
Gnome 2 is dead. <br>
There's a fledgling project to glue gnome 2 into mint and support it but no one from gnome is on it. <br>
If you don't want things changing, stick with a long term distro like the lts from ubuntu or centos. Security and bug fixes get back ported but featured are frozen.<br>
If you want cutting edge, the feature changes are a double edged sword.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 8, 2011 2:41 PM, "Ron Frazier" <<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com">atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi all,<br>
<br>
Well, the subject says it. How do I NOT use Unity and DO use Gnome 2 in<br>
Ubuntu 11.x? Michael T. has almost convinced me to hit the Update<br>
button on my old Ubuntu 10.04 based on comments in the "AARG! Manual<br>
software updates, Sun Java, LibreOffice, help" thread. Should I take<br>
the plunge, and update twice to 11.04, I'll be faced with running the<br>
Unity UI. I tried it once before and its lifespan on my system was<br>
about 30 minutes. So, if I go down this road, and update and keep 11.04<br>
on the system, and hate Unity yet again, how do I banish it permanently<br>
and use Gnome 2 on the newer version of Ubuntu. I don't know anything<br>
about Gnome 3, but my objective is to get an up to date system, not to<br>
change everything I've finally got working like I like it. PS, I don't<br>
want to have to specify the UI every time I login. PPS, I don't have<br>
the system upgraded yet, so I cannot try instructions you give yet.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
<br>
--<br>
<br>
(PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to<br>
call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy<br>
mailing lists and such. I don't always see new messages very quickly.)<br>
<br>
Ron Frazier<br>
<br>
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