Recommendations for another program.
I have been using Ubuntu for 3 years, and I loved it before this latest upgrade. I am thinking about going back to 10.10 or trying something else. Is there anyway to go back to 10.10 without having to reinstall all my files from scratch, and is there another program that is just as easy to use as Ubuntu?
I am not familiar with all the computer lingo, so please, plain English. Thanks. |
I can't vouch for the validity of this documentation, nor do I endorse downgrading because it's really a nightmare, but here is the downgrade documentation for Ubuntu
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DowngradeHowto |
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I also recommend to have a look at Distrowatch and try some of the top ten list, most of them have Live-CDs. |
Why do you need to, specifically? Chances are there is a way of working around whatever problem you have
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If it's because you don't like the new Unity interface, just install a new desktop environment. To install the Xfce desktop (which is the most similar to the GNOME 2 desktop in previous Ubuntu versions):
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apt-get install xfce4 |
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Thank you all for your responses.
Ok, downgrading is out. The desktop environment is not the problem. Since upgrading through the upgrade manager to 11.04, my system is very sluggish. My pages take longer to open, I get interference with video and audio streams, and some times a complete disconnect when I open a document or even open emails at the same time. FB is now a nightmare, I don't even want to bother anymore because of the sluggishness. While writing papers, and viewing pdf files, my pages don't scroll like normal. I have to wait until the computer catches up with my direction. Switching desktops is even a problem, using the graphics is out of the question. I did not have any of these problems before this upgrade. Here is what I have, is there a way to work around this? Is Mint easy to adjust to? What about Lubuntu, is that any better? AMD Athlon64 X2 4400++ Skt Am2 512 MB PCI-E GeForce 8400GS Video Card 500GB SATA2 Hard Drive Thank you for your help. |
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I don't know the speed of your CPU but I'm running Mint 11 on a 5 year old Acer Aspire 5672 (Dual Core T2300 1GHZ) and it runs smoothly and perfectly. I have a ten year old laptop that I run Fedora 14 XCFE on, and I love Fedora but it requires some setup and configuration to really be usable. Be sure that before you do anything, make a full copy of your /home directory to an external drive so you can just restore all your application settings when you switch to Mint (or another Ubuntu based distro) |
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So, make a preferences file (/etc/apt/preferences) that states: Code:
Package: * The Downgrade HowTo site also has a script that you can run to downgrade. The script might be better to try first. It seems it will do a test run on your system, so that you can see what will be done first before deciding. Then, if you wish, you can "uncomment the relevant line. Run it again, and presto! your system is downgraded." I believe the line that's being referred to is Code:
# system(@args); |
I have just gotten into Linux, and started with Ubuntu 10.04 and then upgraded to 11.04 and had a lot of problems with it. I have reinstalled the 10.04 and am very happy with it. One day I might try one of the others but for now I'm very happy with the 10.04 .. jim
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