[ale] screwing up the UI

[JD]

On 03/15/2011 12:50 PM, Ron Frazier wrote:
> HI Chuck,
>
> I do like the experience with Ubuntu 10.04, Gnome 2, and the setup I
> described. My understanding is that, if I upgrade to the new version, I
> lose that experience in favor of a forced changed to Unity, etc. That's
> what I have a problem with.
>
> Ron
Perhaps that is true, perhaps it is not.  Until the actual release, 
there is no way of knowing for certain.  Just because Canonical makes 
some setting the default, doesn't mean you have to keep it. You can 
always change the settings to what you prefer - even completely removing 
Gnome and going with a normal window manager.  If you just want to 
install Ubuntu and stay with the defaults, then you get what they think 
you want. That is the price of using Ubuntu.

I do not **know**, but I highly doubt Unity will be forced on an upgrade 
install. Only on new installs will Unity probably be the default GUI, 
but I'm 99.9% certain at the login screen, you will have an option to 
select a different GUI.

If you are really concerned, why not switch to some other Ubuntu-based 
distro?  Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Mint, etc... For me the key is not ubuntu, 
but Debian and APT, though I've been running Ubuntu-based systems the 
last 3 yrs.  I'm very tempted to switch to the new stable Debian across 
all the servers I run.