You could just change the UI. What makes Ubuntu compelling, for me, is the package management (apt), the documentation and how up to date the packages are. You sure there's no way to just get standard gnome as your ui?
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > I just installed 11.04 Ubuntu yesterday, and today am researching a new > distro. After being an Ubuntu fanboy for a good long while, i'm done. This > new Unity launcher bar is buggy at best, disables multiple desktops by > default, gets rid of the FREAKING APPLICATION MENU, and removes an > applications menus (some are hidden in the top bar and can be revealed with > a mouseover, gparted had none, nada, zip. I had to either Ctrl-Alt F1 and > kill it from there, or use the god-awful unity crap, which only became > visible again after switching desktops, and right-click and Quit from there. > I haven't decided on CentOS, Gentoo, rPath, Arch, or LFS. I would do LFS > again, but I still haven't found a good indie package management tool. > > Sent from my iPhone > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > >
