On 01/10/2012 21:36, Alan Pope wrote:
On 01/10/12 21:32, Gordon Scott wrote:
Can anyone say if 'upgrading' from 10.04 to 12.04 would result in a
default switch to Unity?
It will.
Frankly that is alarming, but also as I suspected, and precisely why I
have not upgraded.
Have you any idea how disruptive that change would be if it were unexpected?
Do you have any idea how badly a change like that can be received?
I have already spent many hours trying to work out how to make Unity
effective for me as my _work_ environment. Unity is already costing me
time, and I don't yet even have it on my work machine.
Are there any nasty surprises in the upgrade from 10.04LTS server to
12.04LTS server, without the GUI? Hopefully with absolutely no bling at
least that one should be relatively OK, though any upgrade is always a
risk and challenge.
If it does, is it reasonably easy to get back to the previous
desktop?
GNOME 2 is dead. If you want to get something looking like your old
desktop then there's GNOME Fallback mode (which as I understand will
also soon be dead), XFCE or a myriad of other desktop environments.
I'm aware of Gnome Fallback, though I haven't tried it.
Unfortunately as my 10.04LTS laptop just smoked, I don't have a machine
on which to try that out for real.
Does the upgrade process inform us of fallback, or better still offer it
as an option?
Does it remain comparable to my present desktop, i.e., I don't waste
hours or days betting back to something with which I can work.
The reason I'm on Ubuntu LTS was because I understood that there would
be steady upgrade process and I hoped that that would minimise many of
the disruptive changes that have happened in the past .. stupid things
like a new blingy CD writer that doesn't work properly superseding the
old drab one that did.
Change is very much a two-edged sword. It needs to be for the better,
and hopefully Unity will eventually turn out that way, or die, but
change almost always also causes disruption, particularly if it's not
carefully controlled. At this moment, Unity feels a little like Ubuntu
threw a grenade into the mix. Yes, I know it's been around a year or
so, but I ditched it back then as too profound a change. I'm trying to
prepare for what seems presently to be an inevitable change, but at the
moment that's feeling a bit of a struggle. I'm still hoping I'll
mellow. I like Ubuntu, it's always been relatively painless to work
with in the past. Hopefully it will be again.
Gordon.
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