[olug] Heart attack after 11.04 upgrade

George De Bruin sndchaser at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 16:14:05 UTC 2011


Friends do not let (nor encourage) friends to use LXDE.  Do you really hate
Ben that much? :)

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:57 AM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:

> LXDE is also an option for those of you looking for a lightweight desktop.
>
> If you looked at KDE 2 years ago using Ubuntu repositories, I'm sure it
> wasn't pretty. Kubuntu had the worst, most broken implementation of KDE 4.x
> out there. It has gotten better. It is certainly worth looking at.
>
> The problem is that Ubuntu treats KDE like a second-class citizen, so a lot
> of the features they develop for Ubuntu never make it to Kubuntu.
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Jon Larsen <jon at jonlarsen.us> wrote:
>
> > Just curious - did you install the gnome3 packages after you upgraded or
> > are you using the default Unity packages?
> >
> >
> > On 06/27/2011 11:15 PM, Obi-Wan wrote:
> >
> >> I just finished upgrading my desktop box from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04
> >> today, and the first time I logged in, I almost went into cardiac
> >> arrest.  I can't express how badly I hate the new Gnome environment.
> >> What are my options?  Is it possible to reconfigure this new POS
> >> to behave like the previous version?  Has KDE gotten any more user
> >> friendly in the 2 years since I last gave up on it?  Are there other
> >> viable options?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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