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

[Michael Butash]

Yes, either use "metacity --replace &" to kill compiz (and unity), or I 
also use a cairo-dock plugin called "composite manager" to flip between 
them.  I use a startup launch for cairo and awn, using them to replace 
unity, the menu, tasks, and systray items, so I don't even notice unity 
being gone.  Between reducing from 2 framebuffers to 1 with a new video 
card, and disabling compiz/unity, I'd gotten a few weeks of uptime until 
yesterday whereas prior I'd get about 3 days of stable use.

I need to run through and try different desktops now, though anything 
but unity pooped itself (sad to say) when presented with very large 
desktop framebuffers.

-mb


On 07/05/2012 01:46 PM, Carruth, Rusty wrote:
> CAN you get Ubuntu to NOT use that stupid unity interface?  (Goodness,
> people, this is a desktop computer, NOT a phone!)
>