[ale] screwing up the UI

[Ron Frazier]

Perhaps you're right. Right now, I have no big incentive to change. 
However, maybe I'll try a few of these other things in a VM and see how 
they work out. So much to learn, so little time.

Sincerely,

Ron

On 03/15/2011 01:16 PM, JD wrote:
> 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.
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