Alternatives?

Posted Feb 24, 2011 8:04 UTC (Thu) by Cato (guest, #7643)
Parent article: GNOME Shell 2.91.90 released

I'm hoping most distros are going to stay with GNOME 2.3x until 3.x is really sorted out, without the sort of issues mentioned in comments - it sounds like the KDE 4.x story all over again but with more UI designer push.

Not sure why this has happened with these projects - perhaps focusing on usability without enough weight given to compatibility? MacOS X and Windows haven't been through quite such radical revamps, probably because the product managers wouldn't let it happen.

Can anyone recommend a good alternative distro, ideally .deb based and a derivative of Ubuntu (which is out for me because of Unity in next release)? Maybe Linux Mint?

Alternatives?

Posted Feb 24, 2011 8:09 UTC (Thu) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]

Just pick last Ubuntu LTS, no?

Alternatives?

Posted Feb 24, 2011 8:54 UTC (Thu) by patrick_g (subscriber, #44470) [Link]

Debian Squeeze.

Alternatives?

Posted Feb 24, 2011 15:37 UTC (Thu) by hp (guest, #5220) [Link]

windows 7 and os X were about as radical if not more so if you ask me.

also gnome 3 still has the old WM/panel as an option