On: Unity is the end of Ubuntu

[regularfry]

So if I'm on 11.04 and don't want Unity, my best bet is to downgrade to 10.04?

[cas → regularfry]

Why do that when 11.04 is supported until the end of 2012 and 10.04 would only extend that by 6 months.

A lot can happen in a year and I'm sure someone will create a flavour of Ubuntu to you liking based on 12.04 LTS.

[regularfry → cas]

Do I have this straight? Your response to someone complaining that they are being forced to upgrade would be that they should upgrade?

[cas → regularfry]

Which, as I said, would be at least another year away.

My response was to you bringing up the topic of security so I simply addressed that with details of Ubuntus LTS. Other than that there would be no reason to upgrade however even then you could update any software package found to have security issues on an individual basis through PPA, debs or source. That is the flexibility of opensource.

No operating system can be supported forever but funnily enough Ubuntu have just announced an extension to 5 years for 12.04 LTS.

[kleiba → regularfry]

11.04 still allows you to switch back to GNOME.