Re: Newly installed UBUNTU is crippled --- Help!

[Christian Resnik <cresnik ee ethz ch>]

it certainls sounds like unity, and in all cases it's a very adequate 
description :-)

On 04/05/2011 12:43 PM, Calum Benson wrote:
> On 2 Apr 2011, at 19:55, sidnie feit comcast net wrote:
>
> > I have an ASUS  Eee PC 1015PEM-PU17-BU 10.1-Inch Netbook.
> > It came with (UGH) Windows 7
> > I followed the instructions on the Ubuntu download page,
> >
> >    Download the USB installer
> >    Choose Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10
> >    Browse to iso
> >    Chose Install Ubuntu
> >
> > The installation completed successfully,  BUT
> > after I boot, I do NOT get the default desktop.
>
> It sounds like what you are seeing is Unity, which *is* the default desktop for Ubuntu now AFAIK. IIRC you can choose to use the "classic" GNOME desktop instead on the login screen. (But I don't use Ubuntu very often, so I could be wrong -- in which case, try searching/asking on http://ubuntuforums.org.)
>
> Regards,
> Calum.