pizza-is-good
October 20th, 2011, 10:44 PM
I'm thinking of installing 11.10 on my Latitude E6400 to give gnome shell a try. I have been running 10.04 LTS 64 bit since it came out.
My few questions are:
-Is 11.10 as solidly built as 10.04? I can handle some bugs and having to put in some cli work, that is not a problem, but I don't want to do much.
-64bit or 32? It seems that 64 has become mainstream in my absence from constant upgrade world. When I did 64 on 10.04 I had to do some very interesting work to make the install fully functional. Drivers for nVidia cards were not fully up to speed then as they were for 32. Has this improved?
-How well does Gnome Shell run? I hear the install for it is easy through the software center. How much better is it than Gnome 2? Now, I am a 'traditional' Ubuntu guy, Unity is not for me. Just saying that so nobody wastes time trying to convince me. I want Gnome 3, no questions asked...
-I hear synaptic is gone... Is it installable? and is apt still the program manager? How is the software center? In 10.04 it almost matched Synaptic, but not quite.
If anyone else has some other advice about going from 10.04 to 11.10, kindly share. I'm not looking for a perfect out of the box experience, but close to it would be appreciated ;). Any tweaks to Shell recommended?
Thanks!
~pizza
My few questions are:
-Is 11.10 as solidly built as 10.04? I can handle some bugs and having to put in some cli work, that is not a problem, but I don't want to do much.
-64bit or 32? It seems that 64 has become mainstream in my absence from constant upgrade world. When I did 64 on 10.04 I had to do some very interesting work to make the install fully functional. Drivers for nVidia cards were not fully up to speed then as they were for 32. Has this improved?
-How well does Gnome Shell run? I hear the install for it is easy through the software center. How much better is it than Gnome 2? Now, I am a 'traditional' Ubuntu guy, Unity is not for me. Just saying that so nobody wastes time trying to convince me. I want Gnome 3, no questions asked...
-I hear synaptic is gone... Is it installable? and is apt still the program manager? How is the software center? In 10.04 it almost matched Synaptic, but not quite.
If anyone else has some other advice about going from 10.04 to 11.10, kindly share. I'm not looking for a perfect out of the box experience, but close to it would be appreciated ;). Any tweaks to Shell recommended?
Thanks!
~pizza