I have to agree. Unity sucks so bad I have a hard time recommending Ubuntu. But Gnome Shell has stabilized and with a small amour of tweaking (I.e. installing of themes) I would place my Gnome desktop against any Mac desktop for clean, professional looking desktop.
This afternoon I even had a Windows user looking over my shoulder at work, and his comments about how he should try Linux again based on how friendly and easy to look at my screen was.
Whatever you do... the default theme on both Unity and Shell is nothing special. Gnome-Look.org is your friend.
Otherwise, I would use Mint.
Kevin
On May 18, 2012 8:52 PM, "Stephen" <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:I have gnome 3 on 12.04 figured out.. it is certainly growing on me.
On May 18, 2012 7:16 PM, "Carruth, Rusty" <Rusty.Carruth@smartstoragesys.com> wrote:
Yeah, I'm still at ubuntu 10.04 *entirely* due to Unity. Gag me - I have a COMPUTER, people, this is NOT a phone!
Oh, sorry, I'm back on that soapbox! :-)
But, anyway, yes, I *can* use just about any distro, but I use Ubuntu because I want it to work and I don't need to prove I can do hard stuff. But then, I'm a native Unix/Linux speaker..., so YMMV!
Rusty
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Ditched Ubuntu after Unity... :(
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