I have a confession

I strayed from the path...

I decided to try arch, or antegros to be more precise. I cleared some space installed antegros (without bootloader). Went back in to Ubuntu and "update-grub2", it found antegros (as expected).
I struggled to find a desktop i was comfortable in and finally I ended up with Gnome3. I found some tweaks moving the "quick-launcher" thingy permanently visible. I have not found a way to move the window buttons to the left side yet... It all kind of ended up in a mix between osX and Unity. which is a nice combination but not really necessary with a spread sheet app view. I did like the fact the icons spread from center and not from the top and downwards. My main conce was my addiction to the "special" key for launching applications. This works out of the box in Gnome3 (I did not know that). I miss the notification icons in the top right coer! I really have no idea whats open or ruing in the background. I don't need to know, but I still miss that. The package-manager works pretty well and is easy to use, there's no software center but there's a Synaptic equivalent.

Here's the thing, I keep trying to make things look and feel like Unity. In fact that's all I've been doing since I installed it. I must admit the polishing of gnome3 is far better than Unity. Things just look better. And I'ts nice to have actual clickable notifications, whether its updates or mails. There where many small things that is considered acceptable in Ubuntu which was on a whole other level on arch, but as of this moment. Ubuntu is stil hanging on. I just hope Unity will look as good as gnome3 next time around...
But for me Unity is a far more efficient working environment. I usually have many windows open at the same time on different workspaces and at least one VM ruing.

Packages were new and fresh but this is also fairly easy to set up in Ubuntu ass well.

Well, this tued out to be more of a talk about gnome, but anyway: I had no idea i was so addicted to Unity!

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