Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal /W Gnome 3

[Gold]

Well,
My opinion of 11.04 & Gnome 3 was so awful & uninstalled it & will never put it back. Absolutely everything is backwards. If this is the future of Ubuntu I will find a different OS, even though I've used it for 6 years. If only BSD had better wifi support I would have stayed with that.

Win 7 IMO has come a long way but it's too much of a hog for older machines. My laptop pc is 7 years old I have a Centrino M processor with a 800 MHZ FSB & 1GB Ram. I don't think it's powerful enough for Win 7. I did install Win 7 Ultimate x64 on my Workstation. It has dual Xeon 2.8GHz Processors & 4GB Ram. It has an 80GB HD with 3 programs & 3GB of files. Win 7 took up 44GB of space on my HD.

As far as my laptop goes, I'm currently putting Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit back on it:thumbsup:

[MeSat_FTA]

Ubuntu has dropped Gnome for Unity. Unity is not Gnome.

Gnome is an option with GDM. Change the session type to Gnome.

You are not the first to say that Unity is a disservice.

http://unity.ubuntu.com/

[ft@t@lk™]

Well,
My opinion of 11.04 & Gnome 3 was so awful & uninstalled it & will never put it back. Absolutely everything is backwards. If this is the future of Ubuntu I will find a different OS, even though I've used it for 6 years. If only BSD had better wifi support I would have stayed with that.

Win 7 IMO has come a long way but it's too much of a hog for older machines. My laptop pc is 7 years old I have a Centrino M processor with a 800 MHZ FSB & 1GB Ram. I don't think it's powerful enough for Win 7. I did install Win 7 Ultimate x64 on my Workstation. It has dual Xeon 2.8GHz Processors & 4GB Ram. It has an 80GB HD with 3 programs & 3GB of files. Win 7 took up 44GB of space on my HD.

As far as my laptop goes, I'm currently putting Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit back on it:thumbsup:

you can speed up that old laptop with a simple trick in win7....readyboost
it's available and built-in for vista and win7
buy a cheap usb flash drive plug it in right-click on it and go to Properties and click on ReadyBoost tab
the OS will use your flash drive as extra RAM when you exceed your physical RAM
works great and it's free
if your laptop has an SD card reader, you can SD card for readyboost too

[Gold]

Ubuntu has dropped Gnome for Unity. Unity is not Gnome.

Gnome is an option with GDM. Change the session type to Gnome.

You are not the first to say that Unity is a disservice.

http://unity.ubuntu.com/

It seems like a total down grade. I gave it a shot again & gave you a screen shot to show Gnome 3, not Unity. The window GUI reminds me of MS Windows 3.1 LOL...No right click & no updating Gnome at present, all updates installed.

http://www.satfix.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=10175&d=1304090436

[MeSat_FTA]

I don't see any screen shot so I have to go by what the Ubuntu site says. They say Gnome 3 is an option.

I have heard many bad things about Gnome 3 about a month ago.

I left Gnome when they removed many of the right click features from the desktop. I have been using KDE since.

[slick517d]

I upgraded to ubuntu 11.04 and tried it for a couple of days before taking it off. I put on the new linux mint 11. I like it a whole lot better. Its still natty but better designed.

[Gold]

One of these day's I should give Mint a try.

I went back to BSD 8.2 for a while, & couldn't get the sound to work & the support is nearly non existent, so I gave Kubuntu a try. I'm still using it since early May, but I did like "Old" Gnome over KDE

[slick517d]

One of these day's I should give Mint a try.

I went back to BSD 8.2 for a while, & couldn't get the sound to work & the support is nearly non existent, so I gave Kubuntu a try. I'm still using it since early May, but I did like "Old" Gnome over KDE

I have bounced back and forth between ubuntu and mint in the last few years. Mint is more user friendly w/ a ms windows type desktop. Now they have medibuntu in their own respository.

[donaldelee]

Just upgraded to 11.04. I first had a screen saying I did not have the appropriate hardware? That, I should log in to Classic? Unable so far, to notice any difference. The OpenOffice is no longer available. It is now LibreOffice?

[slick517d]

After going to natty (Tried ubuntu version and hated it, Then put the linux mint version which i like). I convert movies files to dvd sometimes and found when i tried to burn dvd with k3b i would get an error message telling me files were missing in my dvd structure. After hours of chasing down the problem i found the new version of dvdauthor changes the way it picks up the video format (NTSC or PAL) and it will not create the necessary Video_TS.IFO and VIDEO_TS.BAK files. For some reason it wants to look in your home .config folder for this info. You have to manually create this file in that directory with your favorite text editor:

Go to ~/.config directory
create a text file and name it video_format
Put in either NTSC or PAL -- make sure it is all caps
save the file

It should work fine then

[Gold]

Just upgraded to 11.04. I first had a screen saying I did not have the appropriate hardware? That, I should log in to Classic? Unable so far, to notice any difference. The OpenOffice is no longer available. It is now LibreOffice?

I actually did not like the switch from Openoffice to Libre at first but now I do...Libre is also on Kubuntu