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Is there anyway to return to Ubuntu 10.1 desktop

Asked by bccynic

When I tried to do an update on 10.1 I got the message: no longer supported. I had previous experience with 11.04, and found it very unfriendly. I felt that in order to fix some problems I was going to have to upgrade, hoping that 11.04 would be improved.
One problem I had and still have is if I try to open a picture with my default picture viewer/editor Shotwell the program opens but I get a blank screen, if however I open with Picture Viewer then ask to edit, it goes to Shotwell, and will stay there until I exit.

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samuel (samuel-h) said : 		#1

The first answer to this question here explains how to do just that: http://askubuntu.com/questions/3659/downgrade-from-one-version-to-a-previous-version
apart from that is explaining how to downgrade to 10.04, but when you edit a line in a text file to say v=10.04, as it tells you to, just replace the 10.04 with 10.10 instead, this also use aptitude to run the command that downgrades you (aptitude dist-upgrade) just use apt-get dist-upgrade instead, as that is the package manager in use on 11.04, hope that answers your question, and I hope it works :)

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bccynic (bccynic) said : 		#2

Thank you Samuel, I have switched back to 10.1. I have used 11.04 twice now and it is a complete disaster for me. I wonder it the UBUNTU team could perhaps keep support up for 10.1 until there is a newer better than 11.04. I tried 11.04 when it was first offered as a stable version, then today, with even worse results.
I can't open pictures with Shotwell, and they are unstable in Image viewer, try to play a video and all I get is audio. I have spoken to technicians who don't like 11.04.
The desktop in 11.04 is too completely changed, and I don't have time to try to learn all of the new systems.

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samuel (samuel-h) said : 		#3

I'm glad it worked for you, please can you mark the thread as solved, also you're are deffinetely not alone in disliking 11.04, I know many people who detest it just as much :)

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bccynic (bccynic) said : 		#4

If 11.04 is so disliked, and from my experience untrusted and not user
friendly, would it not be better to keep up the support for 10.1, at least
until there is a better newer version.

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Best Chris (fabricator4) said : 		#5

bccynic wrote:
"friendly, would it not be better to keep up the support for 10.1, at least
until there is a better newer version."

I think you mean 10.10 (yes it does make a difference).

To answer your question, 10.04 is the long term support release (LTS). There's one every two years. LTS releases up to 10.04 get/got support for three years, so 10.04 is supported until April next year (04 means April, 10 means October, the months of release). If you really have to use an older release with the Gnome 2 DE then this would be the one to go for as long as the hardware support is sufficient for your machines. The developers will NOT extend support for 10.10. The next LTS release is due out tomorrow: 12.04. In a departure from past practices and as recognition that enterprise users need longer support life than three years, LTS support for 12.04 will be 5 years, so support will run until April 2017.

11.04 has only 6 more month of support life left. I suggest you try 12.04 when it comes out and see if things have improved for you. A great deal has changed since 11.04, Firstly with 11.10 (which I found rather slow using Gnome3 code, but less buggy than 11.04 once the initial updates were done) and now with faster code and a lot of bug fixes for the new LTS.

Unity has now matured enough that it is getting very usable and in fact I do miss it when I go back to my main production box which is 10.04: it's has some very good points which I'm finding outway the negatives, YMMV. If you decide you still don't like Unity however there are plenty of options - you don't have to use it if you don't want to. There's a several DE's that I've tried that are easy to install and switch to: KDE, Lxde, Xfce are the obvious ones, but it's also possible to install Gnome-panels or Mate for a more Gnome 2 like experience.

If that is too much messing around, install the 'buntu flavour with any of the first three DE's already set up: Kubuntu, Lubuntu, or Xubuntu, however I suggest you give Unity another go at least.

Chris

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bccynic (bccynic) said : 		#6

Thank you Chris. After some frustration and even difficulty even running my old 10.1, a light went on and I ran in safe mode, and fixed some broken packages. After the fixes I again tried 10.04, and it is running well. For the time being I am going to stick with this stable version, after almost getting to the stage of blaming my hardware.
I am not really your typical Linux user, because I was getting old when DOS was the OS, so with my age it is hard to get my head and memory around the tech stuff, but truly appreciate the support from the UBUNTU community.
Thanks to all of the helpful people, it is because of you that nimrods like me can continue to use a first class operating system