Re:Ubuntu moves away from GNOME
by mxavier on Monday October 25, 2010 @03:41PM
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Unity looks silly to me. This moreover confirms to me that Ubuntu is turning the distro into something that everyone's mom/dad can use. While that's fine for popularizing linux, that isn't the OS I signed up for years ago. Switching to Arch is going to be painful but I guess I'll be better off for it.
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> This moreover confirms to me that Ubuntu is turning the distro into something that everyone's mom/dad can use. While that's fine for popularizing linux, that isn't the OS I signed up for years ago.
Weather you were aware of it or not, that is exactly the distro you signed up for. Being end-user friendly has always been a primary goal of Ubuntu.
That doesn't have to be a conflict. Just as you can easily use KDE or XFCE with Ubuntu through the Kubuntu and Xubuntu distributions, I'm sure you can easily choose "classic" GNOME.
or... GNubuntu :-D
Re:Ubuntu moves away from GNOME
by adambyrtek on Monday October 25, 2010 @05:21PM
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Nobody will force you to use Unity. As a power user you should already know that even when Unity becomes the default on Ubuntu you will still be able to use any other window manager.