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markw at mohawksoft.com wrote: > I think I've decided to move away from Ubuntu. Maybe I'm a dinosaur, but > I'm not liking the changes. > > CentOS? OpenSuSE? Fedora? I'm pondering the same question, but personally I plan to stay within the Debian universe if I do stray from Ubuntu. The Debian frame is still solid, even if the Ubuntu chrome on top has gotten too distracting. It makes me wonder where community maintained distributions will find technical contributors if they optimize their UIs for non-technical people to the point that it drives them away. (Maybe not an issue for Ubuntu, which has paid developers.) William Ricker wrote: > If I got totally alienated, I'd check out Mint... That seems to be the alternative disto most frequently mentioned for Ubuntu expats. > ...How-To to replace Unity with traditional shell... To me this comes down to which will be better supported: 1. running a 3rd tier distribution like Mint, or 2. substituting a major Ubuntu component? Will most all Ubuntu packages still work with #2? Will developers ignore your bug reports if you aren't running Unity? Will you have to constantly switch back to Unity to test whether it makes an observed problem go away? Which of these two options will have a larger user community? In the early days with Ubuntu, it was apparent how many layers you were from a package's developer. It was "upstream" (original authors) -> Debian package maintainers -> Ubuntu package maintainers. Most bugs had to travel up that ladder, and faxes back down, which was slow. But over time Ubuntu became embraced directly by more and more developers as they adopted it for their personal use and the user base grew. Either of the above options is likely to inject a step in that ladder again. Matthew Gillen wrote: > Note that if you're just mad about gnome3... Although there are similarities and shared elements, Unity != GNOME3. But it sounds like running even GNOME3 on Ubuntu 11+ will put you in the minority. And I get the impression that neither option will not provide a smooth transition if you have a well tuned and customized GNOME2 environment. The question I'd put to the community is: If you have been using Ubuntu since 10.4 or earlier, and you've upgraded or are planning to, what option did you take? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/
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