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Re:The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desktop by motters on Saturday June 11, 2011 @10:13AM (#2643941)
I regard Unity and Gnome shell as still being experimental, and not delivering a very comprehensive or polished experience. If you want to get serious work done then stick with Gnome 2.x (for example Mint 11).
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Re:The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desktop by eropple on Saturday June 11, 2011 @12:08PM (#2644198)
Like it or not (and I'm ambivalent), what Ubuntu ships is, almost by definition, not experimental. They are desktop Linux in the minds of most.

And, to be honest, GNOME 2 is still pretty lacking. I know a lot of GNOME team members past and present, and I like and respect most of them for a lot of work put in on a pretty thankless project, but the results aren't there compared to Windows or OS X.

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