[olug] Heart attack after 11.04 upgrade

[DYNATRON tech]

im finding myself in the xfce crowd lately. in the past i've only used
xubuntu as a lightweight server platform with a desktop safety net, but i
find it to be a quite appealing alternative to ubuntu's new style and
direction.

i was not aware of the "classic" option. i think i may take it for a spin
tomorrow. thanks for the tip.
On Jun 27, 2011 11:56 PM, "Kim Kirwan" <Kim at kimkirwan.com> wrote:
> I would be interested in following along on your experiences
> with this because I am a big user of EMC2, which sticks with
> the current Ubuntu LTS version, now 10.04. So I use 10.04 LTS
> for everything, it's my primary desktop.
>
> And so with the "shenanigans" of Ubuntu lately, there have
> been some who have mentioned that maybe the EMC2 group needs
> to be looking at another distro, maybe Debian itself, or
> maybe Mint or PCLinuxOS. We probably won't stray too far from
> the Debian root since everyone is used to it and Synaptic
> (apt-get) is pretty hard to beat. Or conversely, maybe Ubuntu
> will get it together by the time 12.04 LTS comes around, and
> no change will be necessary. (I see that Mint is #2 on the
> Distrowatch list and poised to take over #1 from Ubuntu, so
> there must be some "shoppers" looking around for alternatives.)
>
> Please keep posting on this, or start a blog if you get to
> feeling like you're ranting, some of us are very interested.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> 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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