Who else misses pre-unity Ubuntu? >clean no nonsense gnome

>>56034297
You know you can install other DMs on ubuntu, right?

>>56034297
Ubuntu MATE now get >>>/out/

>>56034354
yes obviously, but it just doesn't have that same feeling anymore like it did in 09-10

>>56034354
Every time I would install Cinnamon and uninstall Unity, something would break.

Ubuntu Mate

>>56034297
Why don't you use ubuntu mate? you still have the choice.

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> dat confyness
I don't know if it is just miss my naivety from back then, but I sure miss this little orange beast

>>56035813
looks really bad
REALLY bad
i mean wow

>>56034297
Install Ubuntu mate, that's as close as you can get unfortunately.

>>56034718
You're a fucking autistic retard who shills a buggy fucked up distro and abuses his tripcode. Nothing you say has any value.

>>56035903
I already installed Ubuntu, mate. Now tell me how to get rid of this Unity shit.

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>>56035849
you have not seen the kde 1 then

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>>56035931
https://ubuntu-mate.org

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>>56035953
or even older gnome

>>56035661
>Ubuntu Mate
So... Mint?

>>56035992
This is bait.

>>56034297
Yes.
>>56034354
This.
>>56034412
/thread

>>56034297
Used to miss it like hell. I ran gnome flashback forever trying to stay on GTK3 and keep the old feel... Then I just gave up and got Cinnamon. You smack a nice theme on Cinnamon to actually make it presentable and it's the best damn thing there is.

...but you will have to dig up dconf and tick some session options to make it play nice with systemd. Can't blame this on Cinnamon though.

>>56036018
>but you will have to dig up dconf and tick some session options to make it play nice with systemd. Can't blame this on Cinnamon though.

Better yet, don't use systemd

>>56035968
that looks like a fancy windows 95

>>56036003
Not even trying to bate.
Mint (the version with Mate) is Ubuntu based anyways.
Its been many years since I've used Ubuntu it self, so I'm not sure what would potentially be different from the two.

>>56036116
Then why not just use the superior Ubuntu mate instead?

Mint is running on an outdated kernel and has lower performance and security overall.

>>56034412
>no messy transition to gtk3
GTK3 is such an atrocity.

>>56035849
It legit looks better than LXDE

>>56036087
Good luck finding a normal distro without it.

I remember hating Unity Ubuntu a lot when it appeared. But now I think I like it (mostly because of the global menu). It feels refreshing, even though just a bit.

>>56036401
Welp, get ready for Unity 8 to fuck it all up.

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>>56036428
W-what happened

>>56035813
That reminds me of 12.04, the first Linux I ever installed. Comfy as phuck.

>>56036461
Nothing yet, they've been delaying it forever and fixing it up, but knowing Canonical it definitely won't come without problems... They're trying really hard for full convergence with it but I get the feeling that it's just gonna go at the expense of desktop experience.

>Who else misses pre-unity Ubuntu?

*crickets*

>>56036481
But... Unity came out in 2010...

>>56035931
kek

>>56036523
I meant 10.04, whoops.

>>56035813
It reminds me that I have the cdrom of 9.04, back when they shipped it.

>>56035968
Is this supposed to look bad
The bar at the bottom is huge and that's about it

>>56036505
Anything has to be better than the mediocre mess Unity is now, with half baked web apps, a still useless dash menu after so many years, sometimes shipping with broken themes, that bizarre Amazon search function,

Why don't they just use DuckDuckGo and give you the option to switch to Google/Bing/Yahoo from the dash search? If they're already willing to go full Amazon botnet.

No. Really liking unity now using 16.10 alpha as main OS. Is the most polished DE, fast and easy. I love dash and alt, alt+f2 thing is incredible. If only was more configurable and less heavy on RAM it would be perfect.

Much better than the frankenstein gnome2 was and mate is. Let it die.

>>56034297
Everybody, whether or not they know it

Unity sucks

>>56035813

fuck that is comfy

Yeah, I know what you mean. Gnome 2 used to be the standard, so most of the development effort went into it and it usually wasn't horribly buggy. But now all the "classic desktop" users are split between Xfce, Mate, Cinnamon, KDE, and LXDE and so they're all buggy as shit. I'm using Xubuntu, and 16.04 introduced a bunch of new annoying bugs and didn't fix any of the old ones. The flagship DE of Ubuntu is always going to be the most polished one

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>>56034297

You can get it today and it's preddy gud all around.

I'm satisfied.

>>56036481
8.10 for me

>pre-unity ubuntu
I love how kids that know nothing about GNU think that Ubuntu HAS to use Unity.

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Any notable bugs with Ubuntu Mate or plain old Ubuntu (w/Unity)?

After a recent update from 14.04 to 16.04 fucked up (no menu bars or launcher,) I decided to wipe everything and try Ubuntu Studio. I modified a menu item (so a game would launch full screen) and the application groups vanished. Apparently this was a known bug. I haven't gotten around to trying to fix it yet, but the store is useless since the search box doubles key presses, and now Thunar is occasionally crashing. So I'm thinking I might just install something else.

>>56038603
gnome 2 was pretty goat. mate is not really as good

>>56036116
Mint have a different updating strategy.
It does not matter if the distro is based on ubuntu, they are not the same.

>>56037812
Your opinion sucks
It's not like everyone wasn't already using compiz, gnome-do and a dock in gnome2, unity just integrate everything in a nicer interface
Vanilla gnome2 was totally shitty and useless (gerarchic menu was a mistake, sorry), unity literally fixed everything

>>56040494
you are on /g/, what the fuck did you expect ?

>>56034297
= why moved to xubuntu

>>56040792
Mate is literally the same thing.

>>56035953
oh god the nostalgia....

>>56034297
+1

;_;