There is a lot of historical advice on this subject relating to earlier
versions of ubuntu, but a lot of it is out of date.
I have switched my own systems from unity to gnome in the past, but gave
up a few releases ago because unity had improved to the point where
living with it was better than the pain of switching desktop.
I suspect there will be quite a few users who find themselves in a
similar situation to me, so perhaps we could start with a nice clean slate?
As background, I did a clean install of ubuntu 64-bit desktop 16.10 onto
a separate partition and kept my working 32-bit 16.04 LTS system. Just
creating the spare partition on my all-raid LVM system took a lot of
time and care. Then, once I had the new system working, it took a huge
amount of time and messing about to install and configure all my
applications in their 64-bit versions. Eventually, I had something I
could work with, so I deleted and re-absorbed the "spare" partition. I
definitely don't want to go through that sort of process again to
install ubuntu gnome 17.04!
In "the old days" it was enough to install the gnome-desktop
meta-package and select gnome from the login panel. As time went by,
things got more complicated, but I don't need to repeat all that history.
I was quite sorry to read Mark Shuttleworth's interview about the future
demise of unity - it was a worthy ambition. However, I was very pleased
to read the announcement:-
https://ubuntugnome.org/ubuntu-gnome-17-04-released/
It seems I could simply be patient and my desktop will be automatically
upgraded (along with everyone else) in year from now. However, I would
like to circumvent a few annoying unity bugs and upgrade 17.04 in place.
Is it as simple as changing /etc/apt/sources.list to point to a new
repository, "apt-get update/upgrade" and then "do-release-upgrade".
Would that remove unity and install gnome properly?
I would be very grateful for advice that applies to my current situation.
Thanks for being there!
Brian
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