Great news! I love xfce4. Enjoy. ;)
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Great news! I love xfce4. Enjoy. ;)
There are a million and one choices of desktop environment other than Unity. That is one of the beauties of Linux/Ubuntu.
Try Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Kubuntu (first two light and fast, Kubuntu a bit...
You should not edit grub.cfg directly. You should edit /etc/default/grub and when you've finished, 'sudo update-grub'. This will write the changes to grub.cfg.
Boot from a LiveDVD/USB and backup files. DO NOT go for the in system upgrade to 14.04 LTS, even if you can. You have a broken system and upgrading with the Update Manager will just give you a more...