[Cialug] Ubuntu 11.04

[David Champion]

You can get Kubuntu, which runs a fairly standard KDE install. IMHO it's
more familiar experience to Windows users than the Gnome / Ubuntu desktop.

I've been a KDE user for a long time (mostly with Mandriva linux, soon to be
using Mageia, when the final release is out in a couple of weeks), I like it
a lot.

You don't have to be like "everyone else" and run Ubuntu. :)

-dc

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Don Ellis <don.ellis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Don Cady <doncady at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> IME, Ubuntu is KILLING themselves with all these UI changes.
>> >>
>> >>        Lee
>> >
>> > Agreed. If they really want to tackle "bug #1", the thing NOT to do is
>> > constantly change the interface. But, Shuttleworth seems to want
>> > something like a Mac, and the UI folks he employs may feel the need to
>> > show it's worth keeping so many of them on the payroll, so UI change
>> > proposals seem to pop up _every_ release.
>> >
>> > Don
>>
>> "something like a Mac" -- One thing that would make it more like a Mac
>> is if the interface doesn't change jarringly from one release to
>> another. That's more characteristic of Windoze...
>>
>>
> Well, every GNOME based release will get a jar this year. Ubuntu got Unity
> and others will get GNOME 3.
>
> I'm still getting used to Unity but it works well enough and I think it
> will get a lot of polish this cycle. If you don't like change there is an
> option at the boot screen to go into the classic GNOME 2 desktop. I expect
> that will be gone next release because the 2d version of Unity will be
> installed.
>
> I hear there is a GNOME 3 PPA. A PPA is a repository for contributed or
> development debian packages. You can enable it for your system like this:
>
>     sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
>
> Then you should do sudo apt-get update.
>
> According to https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3<https://launchpad.net/%7Egnome3-team/+archive/gnome3>,
> "This package contains packages from GNOME3 and their dependencies so they
> can be used in Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty). This PPA is EXPERIMENTAL and MAY BREAK
> YOUR SYSTEM. There is no downgrade process."
>
> However, I would encourage anyone who's into Ubuntu to try Unity for a
> while. It will help make it better if more people use it.
>
> --
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