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		icebraining on Aug 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Happy birthday Debian I won't try to convince you not to switch to Debian, but you don't actually need to use Unity on Ubuntu. At work we use Ubuntu, so I just installed a different WM (Awesome, in my case) and logged out and back in.

bergie on Aug 17, 2012 [–]

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell also goes a long way to make Ubuntu usable.

jebblue on Aug 18, 2012 | [–]

I tried Gnome Shell. For me Gnome classic is better but since I keep encountering Ubuntu systems that use Unity, I feel like I should keep trying to like it.

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