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12.10 - quite interesting!

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I have one partition with Ubuntu 12.10 made lean. It is the updated/upgraded Beta 2. I played with Unity for sometime on that. Unity actually make me little tired. Downloaded Ubuntu 12.10 and installed Gnome-shell 3.6.1 from Ubuntu repos and uninstalled Unity. This Gnome 3 is the base of Unity anyway, I only needed the Gnome-shell. It worked much better than Unity. I find there is something in Unity that slows down the Gnome 3 underneath. Oh, the Amazon stuff doesn't trouble me, anyway, and Cannonical is a commercial entity. This time, I also downloaded the Ubuntu Studio. It is based on Xu (Hardware)

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Submitted by dayu on 10/21/2012

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Hello All,

On my previous installation of Ubuntu 12.04 I was using the gnome classic desktop(no effects), but it looked and functioned just like unity 2d.

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I am currently using GNOME Shell, Unity and GNOME Classic on Ubuntu 11.10.

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