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roseway · LXF regular Joined: Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:27 pm Posts: 402

At risk of stating the obvious, you don't have to use Ubuntu of course. And come to that, you don't have to use Gnome. So rather than allowing one distro's choice of desktop to put you off Linux (or computers in general) why not use something else?
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towy71 · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:13 am Post subject:

And there was I thinking that the gui was supposed to make computing easier, both Gnome3 and Unity are just silly on a 24 inch screen and bloody annoying on a netbook. Grrrrrrr
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wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:16 pm Post subject:

I like Unity on my netbook, the launcher at the side autohides when not needed, and the layout is perfect for the small widescreen, where I wouldn't want more than one window at a time.
Nice and fast, easy to use. Smile

My wife uses it on her full size PC and netbook. She likes it too.
Both of her computers are used predominantly for Web browsing, email and Angry birds. Smile

I haven't tried it on my mainPC yet, not sure how it would do.
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SpecialStuff · Joined: Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:06 am Posts: 53

Anyone here trying the latest release yet (Oneiric 11.10)? I installed it yesterday and have been playing with it most concertedly ( Very Happy

) since. So far I'm really quite impressed with it. No major nasties or deal-breakers, the Unity bar and dash are working incredibly well, and I'm enjoying using it on my main desktop PC.

Cautiously optimistic about this one. I'm going to stick with it for a while and see how it goes.

wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 11:39 am Post subject:

Moved my main box to 11.04 last week.
(Athlon X3 with dual monitors)
Finding it nice and easy to use, despite my expectations. Sticking with it.
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towy71 · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:08 am Post subject:

Someone posted this link on twitter, I feel his pain Rolling Eyes

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wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:45 am Post subject:

Moved our netbooks to 11.10, no pain. Smile

I've been using GUIs since Mac OS 7, windows 3.11, Linux from KDE2 on Caldera, went through KDE3, 3.5 with Suse OK, lost it with KDE4. Moved to Gnome 2 on Ubuntu, but I have never taken to a desktop as easily as I have adjusted to Unity.
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bobthebob1234 · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:59 pm Post subject:

bobthebob1234 · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:12 am Post subject:

Also can't bloody shutdown fedora virtual machine.... I DON'T WANT TO SUSPEND!!!!

hold down alt and virtual box jumps in an thinks I want to resize the window!!! ARRRR Twisted Evil

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nelz · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:09 am Post subject:

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bobthebob1234 · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:22 pm Post subject:

** sneaks off to Xfce devs: "lol hay guize I got this amazing idea..."**
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wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 1:08 pm Post subject: