What do you think - leave Unity (and Ubuntu) or be patient when they finish it?

blackstone2011-10-21 10:13:40

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blackstone, 2011-10-21 10:13:40

Hello!
Because I didn’t really find any discussions, so I decided to address this question to those who worked on Ubuntu with Gnome2, and then switched to Unity.
I myself switched completely to Ubuntu over 2 years ago. I set up the Gnome2 environment and it was more convenient for me even than on a Mac (I also use macbook sometimes).
But what to do now?
Ubuntu has gone its own way in terms of DE.
What to do?
Gnome3 doesn't like moving to KDE and settling in from scratch?
Hold on to Gnome2 to the last? - Not promising.
Go to Mac what for and that's it? - you need to buy this for work, then it too, etc.
Suffer that they finish Unity?
What do you think?
I'm sure I'm not the only one now "on treason"?

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18 answer(s)

blackstone, 2016-04-12
@blackstone

As a result, I switched to i3wm after so much time.
Prior to that, I returned to the Mac, then back to Ubuntu.
But now, after decoupling from Unity, you can try changing the distribution, for example, to Arch.

Vitaly, 2011-10-21
@zombic

I switched to Ubuntu about two years ago, now I'm on Unity. Used Gnome3. For myself, I concluded that, by and large, it doesn’t matter to me which shell is used. I launch applications by Alt + F2 (at least before), now Win + command, I don’t create launch shortcuts. In any case, you can customize the system for yourself, somewhere easier, somewhere with frills. Something like this.

Andrey, 2011-10-21
@reaferon

I decided for myself to stay on LTS for now. I am completely satisfied with Gnome 2 and 10.04, and in a year and a half, either my outlook on life will change, or a more acceptable (than Unity) solution will appear, ~~or in December 2012 we will all die~~

Riateche, 2011-10-21
@Riateche

Use XFCE.

Vlad Zhivotnev, 2011-10-21
@inkvizitor68sl

Unity is unlikely to be finished to a reasonable state. The very concept of window management is different.
Well, she is user-friendly. Too much. From the settings removed everything that is possible and impossible. For example, they removed the monitor frequency.
You can sit on Debian Wheezy (and now on Squeeze). If it comes out again in February, it will be supported until approximately February 2015. And there already the gnome3, and the unit, and the fork of the gnome2 will become sane.

sl4mmer, 2011-10-21
@sl4mmer

Settle in Kedah - you'll work for a couple of weeks and you won't want to change anything

avolkov, 2011-10-21
@avolkov

Personally, I'd be fine with Ubuntu 11.10 just bringing back some of the settings that were gone. I've been using Unity since 11.04, on a netbook I like it much more than Gnome 2. I didn't understand Gnome 3 at all, and it's buggy on me, on the desktop and on the netbook.
At the moment, after updating to 11.10, I rolled back to 11.04, a little crazy about the changes.

sebastian, 2011-10-21
@sebastian

Left for Debian when ubunta became overly user friendly. It happened about 2 years ago.

charon, 2011-10-21
@charon

I chose XFCE in Ubuntu. Quite satisfied.

diostm, 2011-10-24
@diostm

they finish it, they finish it, only the dick knows what it will result in

Mel, 2011-10-21
@Mel

I planned to switch to mint with gnome2 from 11.10 and stay on it. I ended up buying a Mac.

Alexander, 2011-10-21
@kryoz

I personally like everything in ubuntu 11.xx, except for:
1) no difference in speed compared to win7
2) integrated features in the task bar, such as messenger and mail
3) an unusual horizontal application menu, I barely got used
While I'm trying Lubuntu 11.10 - obviously quicker, but a little frustrating is the buggy scale of the UI - the forms and dialogs are just huge and changing the font sizes did not help much.

mukizu, 2011-10-21
@mukizu

Left ubuntu for arch and kde4 - completely satisfied

Alexey, 2011-10-21
@Squier

went to debian with the usual classic gnome 2.30. Satisfied.

admin4eg, 2011-10-21
@admin4eg

I left for a mint, which seems to promise to stay on gnome,
I'm thinking about LXDE, but a little later, as they finish it, those who want something similar to gnome2

icegreenberry, 2011-10-24
@icegreenberry

I'm using XFCE. It is already quite convenient, quite fast and looks nice (I'm talking about the one from the box in Xubuntu). Very similar to Gnome 2. So far, it's good.

Eddy_Em, 2011-10-26
@Eddy_Em

This is a matter of taste and color. For example, I used to use KDE, but with the release of the quad I switched to IceWM. Satisfied.
There are people who like Unity too.
Choose yourself.
By the way, you can also try Gnome3 - some people like it.

Robotex, 2011-10-26
@Robotex

And hasn't she been finished yet. Seems to be stable. In 12.04, everything will be fine for sure.