When did Ubuntu get so .. good?

It got decent around 8.10 in my opinion, then threw it all away with Unity and gnome 3. Such a shame. Still it got me to onto Arch, much to the rest of the posters on heres delight no doubt :)
 
Mint is a good alternative if you don't care much for Canonical's flavour of the release cycle but still want a solid Debian foundation and the ease of use. WINE is getting there, but is notoriously picky and patchy still. Virtualization is a better option for some of the Windows based games, tbh.
 
ng93 said:
That'll use Gnome 2, to use Gnome 3 do this:
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Oh? I didnt know that!

I assumed ( Wrongly ) that since I was told that there is no visual difference between Gnome 2 and 3 that I was in fact using Gnome 3 ?

I will give it a shot myself...

Thanks for that!
 
Ah, of course... Add the supository for it... Yeah, thanks for that... I will go it now.
As long as it does not ruin my ubuntu use like Sabayon 6 did to me.... I could not get that stupid interface off once I put it on and it did it twice so I have moved off Sabayon - a big deal for me since its been my main OS since Sabayon v3.5
 
The classic mode is here to stay for the next few releases at least.

EDIT- I remember reading this info somewhere but i just checked and the package "gnome-session-fallback" needs to be installed for it to work :-( so no classic mode out of the box.
 
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Monkeynut said:
Can we still use classic in Ubuntu 11.10, or have they wrecked that option now as well?
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It won't be included on the 11.10 disk, but can still be downloaded and installed. Instead 11.10 will have a 2D version of unity (so basically the same as Unity 3D, but without the fancy compiz effects).
 
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FatRakoon said:
I assumed ( Wrongly ) that since I was told that there is no visual difference between Gnome 2 and 3 that I was in fact using Gnome 3
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No, that's right, sort of.

In 11.04 if you log on as classic you get gnome 2. In 11.10 you'll get gnome 3 but you won't be able to see the difference.

Above, where everyone is saying "gnome 3", they should be saying "gnome shell". ;)
 
Will have to grab myself a copy of this and have a play about on a VM.

I've not touched Ubuntu since ~8.04, will be interesting to see just how far it's come.
 
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