[tlug] Holy smokes, Unity and Gnome 3 suck worse than I ever could have imagined.

[Martin G <ebisumartin@example.com>]

TLUG,

Upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 on Friday, fought through the usual upgrade
pains... and for what?

Turns out Unity just stinks. As in "what died in here?" levels of stinkitude.

So I switch over to Gnome 3... and wow... just wow. I didn't think
anything could suck worse than Unity.

I learned they have a rollback to a "classic" Gnome interface... and
it's all busted up looking. Not all panel apps work, the themes don't
seem to match, there's a weird panel that doesn't do anything on my
second monitor, the system menu is gone... Oh, and Compiz doesn't
work.

I tried to customize them, but they all resist customization. You
can't move the Unity Launcher at all. Right clicking on a panel in
Gnome 3 does nothing. Nothing works in Gnome Classic.

I can't believe how much this sucks. I really, really liked the old
Gnome interface.

I guess I'm basically just ranting, but if anyone has any suggestions
on how I can get a shell that simulates as much as possible the old
Gnome interface, let me know.

-- 
Dave M G