[GRLUG] Ubuntu Oneiric

[Ben Rousch]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Mike Williams <knightperson at zuzax.com> wrote:
> On 10/30/2011 07:26 AM, Ben Rousch wrote:
>>
>> Many of your gripes can be fixed by installing Gnome Shell. In Ubuntu
>> 11.10 you can easily do this, and switch between Unity or Gnome Shell at the
>> login screen. sudo apt-get install gnome-shell Reboot Click the little gear
>> thing next to your name at login, select Gnome
>
> I have considered that, but I was trying to force myself to do things "the
> new way" rather than always changing the interface back to what I was used
> to. That worked with Windows and not having My Computer on the desktop. I'll
> give it a week or two, and if I still can't stand it then I'll go back to
> GNOME.

Gnome Shell is not really going back to Gnome(2). Gnome Shell uses
Gnome3 (as does Unity in 11.10) and is as different from Gnome2 as
Unity is. Gnome Shell is what every other Gnome-based distro is moving
to, so it is the new way for everything except Ubuntu.


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 Ben Rousch
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