David Ohlemacher writes:
>
> For xmas, we now have two new zareason systems. A desktop and a laptop, both
> with mint 12.
[...]
> Zareason was great by the way. It was me that asked for Mint 12; there were
> several choices. I appreciate 24/7 support with someone that speaks American
> English
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Bruce Labitt
wrote:
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> Maybe I'm just looking to hold on to gnome. It worked well enough. It
> didn't have too much stupid stuff and was relatively easy to maintain.
>
> Any insights?
>
Who knows how long it will still be available, but if you launch Ubuntu
Sof
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:42:18 -0500
"Shawn O'Shea" wrote:
>
> Who knows how long it will still be available, but if you launch
> Ubuntu Software Center and install the GNOME Desktop Environment
> package (or apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment) you will get
> GNOME and GNOME Classic options
My solution was to flip gnome 3 the bird and switch to XFCE. I've been much
happier since. It may be missing some of the graphical bells and whistles
you get with gnome 2 plus compositing, but at least I have all of the
functionality that I'm used to from gnome 2.
- Chris
On Wed, Jan 4, 201
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Ed lawson wrote:
>
> Thank you for that info. I have been switching between Gnome 3 and the
> Classic Gnome options provided in SID and nice to know you can get
> there in Ubuntu too. For me using "classic" is relatively
> painless, but Gnome 3 will take awhile.
> My solution was to flip gnome 3 the bird and switch to XFCE.
Me, too - I switched to the XFCE-based Xubuntu.
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I was too lazy to do that. I just apt-get installed xfce4 and switched my
default session.
- Chris
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Michael ODonnell <
michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> > My solution was to flip gnome 3 the bird and switch to XFCE.
>
> Me, too - I switched to the XF
