Re: Ubuntu 11.04 upgrade

Top Page
Attachments:
Message as email
+ (text/plain)
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Stephen
Date:  
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Ubuntu 11.04 upgrade
my thing with unity is it is really incomplete. so allot of the
tools/menus i really liked are now really hard to find. aside from
that its really not that special.

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Steve Phariss <> wrote:
> I probably will do that,  got to give it a spin though.... just the inner
> geek in me I suppose  lol
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:16 PM, James Mcphee <> wrote:
>>
>> I found Unity so disappointing that I stopped using it on my desktop.  You
>> can have a standard Gnome desktop by selecting "Ubuntu Classic" as your
>> session.
>>
>> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Steve Phariss <> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, I did something I swore I would never do (major OS upgrades after 7
>>> PM)  I went from Ubuntu 10.10 to  Ubuntu 11.04 last night.  had to leave the
>>> upgrade running all night as it took over 12 hours!!!! (about 2 hours for
>>> downloading, 10+ for actual install and clean up.)
>>>
>>> Finally finished this morning but I have not had time to really sit down
>>> with it.  At least I did not have any issues with Grub 2 this time around
>>> (probably because I had it keep the original config).  One annoying thing I
>>> found, I was unable to find any Administration tab on Unity...  It is
>>> probably there, but that desktop is definitely going to take some getting
>>> used to.
>>>
>>> One thing I DID notice is that boot time (bios to usable desktop) seemed
>>> to be much faster then 10.xx  Also, LibreOffice has replaced OpenOffice (no
>>> surprise, but glad to see it)
>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list -
>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> James McPhee
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list -
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list -
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>




--
A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen
---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list -
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss