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Author: Steve Phariss
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Ubuntu 11.04 upgrade
I was thinking the same thing, didn't really have any problems with it per
se, just that things are missing or hard to find.

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Stephen <> wrote:

> 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)
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> >>
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> >> James McPhee
> >>
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> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>
> Stephen
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