Re: "Gubuntu" - Long term perspective for Ubuntu with Gnome?

[Ryan Peters <sloshy45 sbcglobal net>]

On 04/29/2011 05:43 AM, Marc Fouquet wrote:
> If Ubuntu sticks with Unity, do you think that there is a chance we 
> might see a "Gubuntu" distribution, similar to Kubuntu and Xubuntu in 
> the long run?
>
> I got used to Ubuntu, so I don't like to switch to another distro. But 
> I tried Natty/Unity yesterday and didn't like it - at least in its 
> current form. Installing Gnome 3 from an experimental PPA does not 
> appear like a long-term solution either.
>
> Regards,
>     Marc
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I have no authority to speak on Canonical's behalf, but knowing how they 
work, I don't think this would happen officially. I'm pretty sure that 
there will be at lease one third-party Ubuntu flavor that uses the 
default GNOME 3 desktop, however, as there's a reasonably large demand 
for it.

I used to use Ubuntu for a while (from 7.10 to 10.04 actually), and I 
can sympathize with your position. After they changed things around a 
little too much for my liking, I decided to give a more "upstream" 
distribution (relative to Ubuntu) a try. Right now I'm using Arch Linux, 
and while it's a little confusing to set up at first, it runs like a 
dream and it taught me all about how my OS works while I set it up, 
something that you don't get from more GUI-oriented distros like Ubuntu. 
As a second choice, though, I highly recommend Fedora/OpenSUSE. They're 
both great distros that incorporate the GNOME 3 desktop without patching 
it to oblivion like Ubuntu would have (funny thing about that: my 
vanilla GNOME 2 desktop, after switching from Ubuntu a while ago, was 
actually less buggy than Ubuntu's patched-up version).

After all, if you disregard the package manager, most distributions are 
incredibly similar on the GUI level. I highly suggest giving another 
distro a try, at least on a Live CD (and don't forget to read 
documentation), before trying to use GNOME 3 on Ubuntu; last I heard it 
breaks a lot of things because of Ubuntu's packaging.