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Old 01-09-2014, 02:11 PM   #457
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Originally Posted by jgaiser View Post
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04LTS and it was my first introduction to Unity. Holy Crap!!! What a mess. Luckily Google is your friend and it took a single search, a couple of minutes downloading and installing classic gnome, and I was back in business. Not looking forward to upgrading, but the LTS is supported until April 2017 and I'll just wait.
I think people need to keep in mind that unlike say Windows or OS-X, Linux does not tie you to a particular desktop environment. If you want to run Ubuntu with a different desktop, there is Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu (there might even be an Ubuntu that ships with something from the Gnome family). And as you pointed out, installing an alternate desktop environment is not that big of a deal.

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