[Qgis-user] distros/desktops for unhappy ubuntu users

[Agustin Lobo]

Hi!
Here I post an abridged and structured list of answers related to my post
"qgis on linuxmint?"
Agus

ORIGINAL COMMENT:
alobolistas at gmail.com
Having been an ubuntu user for a long time, I do not like ubuntu
versions > 10.04 LTS, even after introducing the necessary tweaks to
get something similar to the classic gnome. I feel ubuntu is heading
towards simple
desktops for office users, not convenient for technical and scientific
work. Perhaps it's time to change
to another linux distribution.

ANSWERS IMPLYING CHANGING THE DISTRO:

werner.macho at gmail.com
I am using LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) since more than a year now
and I am very satisfied with it.

dennis at dmlinton.net
Unity is a nightmare for people interested in production and moved me to
abandon Ubuntu in favour of Debian Stable (currently Squeeze).  QGIS,
1.74 anyhow, works very nicely on it.

xavi at tarbz2.net
No problem with QGIS and GRASS in ArchLinux, but I had some problems with
java libraries and gvSIG. In fact I returned to a "standard" distribution,
like Debian Testing and now Fedora 16.

ANSWERS IMPLYING KEEPING UBUNTU BUT CHANGING THE DESKTOP

sig.upagu at gmail.com
I've used Ubuntu since 7.04 distro and I understand you. I hate Unity
desktop, but as it's possible to get the Gnome desktop I am still
working with 11.10, ready to jump to 12.04. I supose I´ll fight for my
gnome desktop, but it's possible to get.
Note from alobolistas at gmail.com: This is what I  currentely have under
11.10 but after many tweaks the system has still
numerous differences with the classic gnome desktop used up to 10.04

sig.upagu at gmail.com
I met Linux Mint last year, and it's same as Ubuntu; even repositories
are same for both... so the difference is just the desktop. Keep you
with Ubuntu. A Google search for "ubuntu 12.04 gnome desktop" is
useful.

micha.neubauer at yahoo.de
Just use Kubuntu instead of Ubuntu. the ubuntugis repository and everything else
still works fine and you got away from this unity thing.
KDE has gone a long way, KDE4.8 is rock stable now!

arhamilis at gmail.com
I just install Cinnamon GUI on Ubuntu (see
http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?page_id=61) and QGIS runs well.
PS. It's GNU/Linux. No need to rush to another distro or stick to an
old version of it. Get your favorite GUI instead :-)