Opinions on Zorin OS (and a side order of Mint)

[James Mcphee]

I tried out the new unity interface and found it to be useable, if a bit
stupid.  You can use pretty much any desktop environment and window manager
your heart desires.  The old gnome is still available.  That's what I'm
using right now.

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Carruth, Rusty <
Rusty.Carruth at smartstoragesys.com> wrote:

> CAN you get Ubuntu to NOT use that stupid unity interface?  (Goodness,
> people, this is a desktop computer, NOT a phone!)
>
> I stopped using anything Ubuntu newer than 10.10 as soon as I saw the
> disaster that was ALL the window managers that I could find in the time
> I had to spend looking (not much).
>
> When I saw mint at work due to a test I was running for a customer, I
> switched to it.  While I still like the old interface better, at least
> its usable (don't like cinnamon, obviously.  I'm using Mate)...
>
> > I'd rather just use ubuntu as the distro without unity on it as a base
> > and get general industry support, especially for video driver blob
> > support as it and fedora/cent are the standard vendors are willing to
> > support.
> >
>
> Me too, but someone have a pointer to a howto? (since I really don't
> have time to spend being an administrator and finding all that out, or
> breaking my system while trying to figure it out, really.  That's why I
> switched to Ubuntu in the first place!)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rusty
>
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James McPhee
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