Unity Got You Down? Change Back to the Classic Gnome Look

http://twitter.com/nixiepixel It turns out that Unity has not been very unifying some; of you have been unhappy with the new look and feel of the new desktop included with the Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal release. (and want your old Ubuntu window manager back!) In this episode of my Ubuntu is Easy segment I show you the easy way to switch back to the classic desktop feel of older Ubuntu releases.

All of this video was created entirely using open source software in Linux.

Amazing intro made in Blender by http://www.youtube.com/user/Synicade

Thanks Wayne Tedder for my Linux made penguin intro : http://www.youtube.com/user/deathguppie

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ubuntu
• desktop
• change
• unity
• ubuntu desktop

[MZITinfo]

I think unity can go to hell (where it came from)

[brpadington]

Unity is shit. Gnome 3 has it's problems but it is infinitely better than unity. Linux Mint has been gaining a lot of users since Ubuntu is going downhill.

[blingdead100]

i like unity! because it's my favorite desktop interface! :)

and it's stylish! too! :)

[theRaven131]

Hey Nixie,

I am trying to decide on a distro, but really am not sure. Do you use Ubuntu 11.10? If so, do you like it? Is it something you think it would be worth using as a full time distro?

Raven

[R3qU3m]

For anyone that really want to get the classic feel you should probably use something like LXDE or XFCE... of course if you combine something like XFCE and Nautilus you would be pretty close to the gnome 2 feel and handle of things..

[IngvardM]

hm.... i personaly like unity. ofcors at first i hated it, but now i installed ubuntu 12.04 and kinda got used to it :) So before calling it crap, try it for a couple of weeks. The only thing thats bothering me still is the launcher, which is, btw, fixable with bliss launcher.

[mkv1614]

@SlaveExplosion Its not about who pioneered it. Its about Ubuntu looking more and more like MacOS. It leaves the classical Fedora, Debian like look and feel and switches to the MacOS style to attract more and more Users.

If you like that ...

[SlaveExplosion]

@mkv1614 Lol what?

Round buttons at the top left wasn't pioneered by Apple..

[halfbakedshawn]

gnome3 shell with dual monitors w/ nvidia gpu... and go !

[steamgamesonlinux]

Linux Mint + Cinnamon Desktop FTW! Classic desktop experience + fast and responsive...

[desktorp]

I run scripts on the side of the bowl to make less noise.

[Th33M33]

u devil worshiper