Install Gnome in Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)

I'm programmer and Unity just doesn't work for me. It freezes a lot, I can't bear how it's slow. I'm changing back to KDE.

i have a gaming laptop and a netbook which i carry around with me. Unity works great and I have now gotten used to it on my gaming laptop. But now on my net book is a whole different story. it would be great if they came out with a lighter version.

Thank God for Gnome. What are they thinking?

I'm installing Debian instead of Ubuntu now, and I found that I had been giving Canonical way too much credit -- everything that I liked about Ubuntu is in Debian and it's more stable. I just googled this page as I reminder how to turn off Unity on an Ubuntu machine I'm still running. (It's making remote desktop really slow !)

I cant use the machine, what a disaster for Ubuntu, Ive wasted too much time giving it a chance to prove itself. Just completely useless, they screwed up something that was working fine, for what ? Im looking for something else, hope to god the other distros dont jump on this BS bandwagon. Im using Debian for the momment.

Ubuntu is going to destroy Linux on their own with the introduction of "UNITY"!

WANTED: A linux distro with an unpretentious and usable "TASKBAR"! Please HELP!!!!!

Canonical has become preoccupied with herding users to their music store, 'ubuntu one' and their other commercial enterprises. Thats why they've dumbed down the interface. Popularity has gone to their head. They seem to forget that didnt invent this gnu/linux operating system, they just put it together. Seem to remember Red Hat doing this too... Time to find a new distro.

God spare me from these *sshole developers who take a great product and decide to completely rearrange it based on focus groups with Homer Simpson-esque morons.

Imagine an auto maker deciding, hey I'll put the steering wheel in the back seat, the glove compartment outside, I'll hide the stereo under the gas tank, and not put any of this in the user's manual so my new customers can figure it out for themselves!

Did Homer Simpson tell the Ubuntu 11.10 team that Gnome was all wrong??

If I wanted a freaking tablet, I would've bought a tablet!!

I have seen here (https://www.futurehardware.com/linux/605.htm#post2824) that some users does not able to see the DE after installing the Gnome 3. Is that True?

Holy gigatonfuck, I've installed a fresh version of ubuntu, because I had to work on fedora for many reasons for the last 14 months.

What the hell is this shit now? This seems a computer candy jelly childish interface for a 6 year old kid.

I used for a while jolicloud, but you must always be connected to the internet to use the apps. I wouldn't recommend it to you.

I've been using Ubuntu for years now,and 11.04 kinda worked for me,but 11.10 is like everything is removed from. the settings are so poor they even removed the screensaver. Ubuntu its getting way to minimalistic so now I'm actually already looking for other linux OS out there. How is Jolicloud? is there anyone of you who have test it? Ill say lets make petition in form of Facebook group of something like that. more people join - more people sign it.

Unity = s**t
Damn you canonical & team.. you have ruined everything about Ubuntu with unity.

f*&$ unity... just cant describe how bad i feel with unity.

Unity sucks. I have been using Ubuntu for years, and the recent "switch user hang" problem in Ubuntu 11.10 had drove me crazy.(https://askubuntu.com/questions/90754/11-10-switching-user-completely-hangs-the-system-every-time) They' didn't solve this and now I'm considering switching to another Linux dist.

simply cannot figure out unity. After years of ubuntu I'm going elsewhere. So stupid.

Kubuntu. Or just "sudo apt-get install kde-standard". Voila, a usable interface again.

After the initial dislike of unity I have been trying to get used to it but I realised I cannot. It's impossible to even work efficiently with unity's unintuitive, dumbed down interface.
Better make gnome default or even ditch ubuntu completely after 5 years using it. Very-very sad...

I was just about to "upgrade" from Natty 11.04 to Oneiric 11.10, but after reading these comments I have decided it's not worth it. When I first installed 11.04, I quickly became tired of Unity and discovered Classic was my desktop of choice. If Unity is just a workaround in 11.10, the developers are obviously not interested in supporting it. This is not a good sign. Tablets are quickly becoming the PC of choice, leaving us obsolete laptop and desktop users to fend for ourselves.

The developers of Unity, secretly and in their heart of hearts, aspire to to work for Microsoft and be windoz developers. See for yourself. What is our alternative, now? Soon only Plan 9 will be Unix. Guys, if you want to be like Microsoft, go apply for a job with them and please don't terrorize us.

what have they done? apart from unity there appear to be several 'broken' issues. trying to fix things in this unity environment is a challenge. i have seen enough of unity to dislike it and have abandoned the fixings and have reverted to my old 11.04 (studio based) system. this could be the end of future ubuntu for me. a great disappointment and just before Christmas as well.

THis unity shit is a catastrophe, why did thay try to fix something was not broken. look that force us into use this shit is bad.

Ubuntu, today is your first day of your new redhat destiny.

listen to me, i am right on this.

Canonical please return GNOME to Ubuntu. This Unity thing is bogus!!!

Today upgraded from 10.04 to 11.10. WORST desktop experience so far. Please suggest me some other flavor of Linux for my poor laptop.

We should all write an e-mail petition to Cannonical & tell them to bring back GNOME (either that, or we should all switch to Xubuntu).

Unity is a good example of one thing, that being how utterly foolish it is to redesign someone's desktop technology and then foist it on everyone without making it an option, which people can elect or not, easily and without penalty. Otherwise it is a bad example of _everything_. I followed some instructions from the Ubuntu forums for removing it, and ended up with an unbootable system. Thanks, Unity developers, Ubuntu managers, and helpful Ubuntu forum contributors. I am having a very hard time dealing with this situation. I had been very pleased with the Ubuntu system, planning to assist friends in migrating to it from Windows, but now I think Ubuntu may be behaving a bit like the devil we so gleefully ran to it from. Curses! I have installed 10.04LTS on another drive and am essentially starting over, while still attempting to pursue fixing my 11.10 Unity-spoiled system. I don't know if anyone with Ubuntu/Canonical reads this (I can see them moving away from considering user impact or input at what is approaching the speed of light), but if so, please examine each element of a proposed change and ask "Is this better than what we have now?" There are many elements of the desktop management technology changed by Unity, but I do not prefer the new for any of them.

who can like Unity? i mean all you have to do to have a silly interface like that is get yourself a mac... so sad that the ubuntu devellopers are so much affected by the hipster heritage of this brand...

OK of-course, Mini's, Tablets may need an innovative initiation like Unity Desktop to compete with Mac and Windows, and even admire Qt with Unity, It is not a bad Idea to get fast into the future market, But still how about Desktop Users and Developers...

Ubuntu should be the bundled with default gnome desktop installation and leave the choice to switch the Desktop. Of-course Linux is always leaving that choice with us and Ubuntu.

My favorite Ubuntu Rocks always, and Unity has triggered an urge for Gnome and Unity

I've been using Linux for about 15years so I'm not averse to change. With Ubuntu 11.10 I've disabled Unity simply to get single-click workspace switching; thereby forgoing the opportunity to discover if Unity is useful. Mixing 'classic' features (menus, switchers, launchers) with Unity would, perhaps, lead to a cluttered screen but allowing users the choice via System Settings would encourage gradual adoption of (best of) the new features.

Think I am going to revert to debian in the end...

Imagine you wake up and find yourself in a house you'we never visited before. And after finding some stranger's clothes to put on, you decide it's time to go to work. After walking hither and tither for a while, you find out you are in Kiev. But you live and work in Oslo!
This is what Unity has done to us. All the learning and explorations it has taken to settle down wasted.

Thanks for the info about how to get classic installed; Unity has been a complete turn-off, to the point that I've told members of my group not to update to 11.X because of it.

I feel your pain. I think that the new gnome has too many bugs under Ubuntu. I'm considering Xfce.

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install xubuntu-desktop

Was there a poll to decide to put Unity. I don't know how anyone can be happy with it? To start an app I have to first find it by typing or clicking a thousand times. Too big and ugly. I don't have or want a tablet computer. When I will have it I may decide to put Unity.. Cmon. admit you were wrong and remove this S***.

I take it back -- the majority of the lag was from running Unity 2D. Since yesterday I've been running Gnome Classic and haven't noticed any lag in switching workspaces or in the terminal. The calendar is pretty laggy, however.

I don't know if I'm just an old-time "thickie" but I can't figure out how to use Unity effectively. It sure looks to me like one of those things that look great, and demo great, but end up being in the way and slowing you down as soon as you start to use them.

For example, when I hit alt-tab to switch between windows it shows only which applications I have running (a relatively small number) instead of all of the windows each has. Hovering for a while over on of the apps (e.g. the terminal) then shows me all the terminals available. Really pretty, and fantastic demo-ware - but, instead of being able to flick back and forth between windows in a quarter of a second, it now takes me 2s-3s (unless there is a quicker shortcut that I haven't found yet).

Sorry for all the work, but it's a huge mistake to terminate the classic Ubuntu. As a front-end designer I have to tell that Unity is rather 'clumsy' it's not faster to scroll trough all those large icons. Have you guys forgotten the rules of thumb???

Clicking on the ubuntu logo in the Unity Dock:

1: The section dividers on the underside (home, settings, documents & music) are supposed to be on top (remember that this is an extra movement of the mouse, if you decide to choose another section)
2: Your eye has to read from left to right trough all these huge icons and when the app is not there, you have to scroll downwards. So know we are looking up and down too.
3: People do not like it when something is forced upon them and have to learn all over again. Look at the arrogance of Microsoft Office with all their newly implemented icons a few years back, people still don't like it.

All these extra movements are not an improvement at all. Give people a choice to install 'ubuntu classic' like in Ubuntu 11.04 at login, but even that has been removed.

Ok, when it is going to be Unity:
implement a menu structure without the icons, make that an extra option in the compiz desktop manager.
implement an option to scale down those large Unity icons (smaller than 32, because this is still very big)
When you click on an icon, those menu's with icons should size editable, because they are GIGANTIC.

I hope someone reads this, I'm looking at new other distro's right know.

Raymond van der Aa

You can add the menu from the widgets, it's still not the same though.

Here's how to right click in Gnome, it was changed to alt+right click:
https://www.virtualhelp.me/linux/473-ubuntu-1110-move-the-clock-from-the-middle

The System drop down is missing and the menu is not able to be right clicked anymore... What the hell have they DONE!

The choice of GNOME is apparently only for this session. How can my choice be saved?
Any ideas? Thx