[LAU] Reinstalling Ubuntu - Which version ?

[Florian Paul Schmidt]

On 11/14/2011 05:35 PM, Atte André Jensen wrote:
> On 11/14/2011 09:59 AM, jy wrote:
>
>> Anyway I think it's my last attempt at ubuntu as I get tired of it, if
>> think it's great to begin with but now I want something a bit more...
>> well... stable and smaller. Something I can have easy control.
>> So which ones would you suggest for reasonable tweaking, easily
>> maintanable, with good hardware support (as I'm using a laptop) and fun
>> to use for people who don't care about which OS they're using (meaning a
>> cool and friendly desktop with the regular apps that one can use on
>> other OS) ?
>
> I been using debian for ages, switched to ubuntu for the 6 month 
> release cycle and the benefits of beeing in the mainstream. 
> Unfortunately the later version made me long for something else. The 
> unity/gnome3 thing + the rumor that ubuntu was planning on abandoning 
> their 6month release cycle and switch to rolling release was too much 
> for me and I installed arch (after recommendations from this list).
>
> I've been very happy with it, it's small, stable, has a rolling 
> release (I'd prefer a 6month release cycle, but it works quite well, 
> nothing has been really broken (not more than with a fresh unbuntu 
> install) since. It's a a bit hand-held during the install, but that's 
> something you only do once.
>
> I'm sure you'll get a ton of recommendations, so good luck with 
> choosing :-)
>

Since I use xmonad as my window manager and only fire up e.g. nautilus 
when i need it the gnome3 thing doesn't really matter to me and ubuntu 
stays perfectly usable? Isn't it possible to install a real gnome2 on 
ubuntu, too?

flo