[clug] GNOME 3 in trouble according to El reg. True or a beat up?

[Carlo Hamalainen]

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I have until recently stayed back in the Gnome 2.xx era to avoid Gnome 3
> > (and Unity) but have recently moved to Mint with Cinnamon Desktop
>
> +1  Although in my case I have persevered with Unity for about a year
> now and think I finally have bent my brain into using it. I still pine
> for "the good old days" from time to time.
>

Have you tried the MATE desktop? There is an Ubuntu repo.

http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download

Also, I've been using xmonad for the last week (a tiling window manager)
and I'm impressed at how it simplifies my workflow and lets me avoid the
mouse for many things.

-- Carlo