[CALUG] ubuntu Unity alternatives.

[John Alan Hastings]

So far almost everyone who has replied has recommended Mint as a
replacement for Ubuntu.  To be honest, I cannot offer any advice that it
better than that.  Your situation sounds /exactly/ like mine, and I,
too, hated Unity.  (It is sad, Ubuntu was a very good distro for a very
long time.  Why they did not do something like Gubuntu beats me.)

So, if I have nothing more to offer, why do I reply?  Well, because
nobody has mentioned that Mint in /beautiful./  I mean gorgeous.

But let me go back.  My first attempt was LMDE with gnome.  It was not a
pleasant thing.  It seems that gnome has decided to drop support for
transparency in the gnome terminal.  Now, not only have i become very
fond of transparency, it has gotten exactly to the same point in my life
as that first cup of coffee in the morning.  I /need/ it.  I do not want
to contemplate living the rest of my life without transparent windows.

And so, I tried cinnamon. It blew me away.  Not just a transparent
shell, but transparent start menus, and while at it, hundreds of drop
deal gorgeous themes.  And then, starting with Mint 17, you can have
transparency on /any/ window; with the cursor on the titlebar, the mouse
wheel adjusts the transparency of whatever window you are using.

Okay, okay.  I know.  You have work to do.  So do it.  It is rock solid.
Rpck solid is necessary; rock solid and beautiful is hard to beat.

Enjoy.

Alan

On 01/01/2015 11:25 AM, Wendel Dean Renner wrote:
> I updated ubuntu 9.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS because I could no longer
> get packages for 9.04.
> 
> Pershaps someone could give me an overview of who or what is driving
> Ubuntu?     I find the Unity desktop completely foreign and confusing.
> I could not even figure out how to get a terminal window up.
> You have to hit control-alt-T.   How is anyone suppose to know that?
> I understand it is designed for netbooks and touch based devices.
> I need something for a desktop computer.
> 
> I have considered going back to an earlier desktop such as
> GNOME or KDE. Is there any reason why that would not be a good
> idea?
> 
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