Greetings. On several laptops and desktops, I made the transition from Fedora -> Ubuntu about 3 years ago. I did that mainly because Fedora updates kept "breaking" the Nvidia proprietary video drivers and the developers openly said that they didn't really care whether or not their distribution had drivers that could work with the hardware. Ubuntu developers at least recognized the problem and have a repository for commercial/addon drivers and they try to make sure the OS doesn't break the video drivers.
Anyway, I just learned that in the next Ubuntu, they are adopting the "Unity Desktop". I did some checking on that and I totally hate it. I hate Mac GUI and am disgusted that the free/open movement pushes to imitate it. If I liked the look/feel of it, then I might be willing to put up with the pains of transition in the next Ubuntu, but, well, I don't. They say they will have other desktop options, but, in my experience, it will be tough to avoid the packaging and configuration changes that they enforce on everybody in order to make Unity work (maybe I'm too skeptical). Can I escape Ubuntu to Debian? 1. Is Debian defaulting to the Unity Desktop too? (please say no) 2. How can I make a transition to Debian from Ubuntu? So I need to change my apt repositories and then do what else? If glibc or the kernel headers are new, I'll have to recompile everything I've built, but that's OK. 3. If I make this change Ubuntu -> Debian, will I end up back in "Nvidia Hell" where the OS updates frequently break the commercial/proprietary video drivers? I understand that nouveau is providing reasonable 2D for Nvidia cards, but my job requires the 3D support that seems available only from the commercial driver. I'm not trolling, not trying for a flame war here. If you like Unity, more power to you. If you like Ubuntu, OK, it has been good for me too. PJ -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=UV6RVEyVK+KC6=2vwbpls2jf14nghdhivk...@mail.gmail.com