On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 13:05, Tootler <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I installed ubuntu 10.10 netbook on my Acer Aspire One and found it had the unity desktop. > > When I installed wine, no wine menu was added to the LH panel. Not a lot of use I think. > > I have downgraded to 10.04 and will stick with that until the next LTS - or at least until issues with the unity desktop (and Gnome 3 which I believe is due in 11.10). I am not too keen on the 10.04 netbook edition desktop, but at least it works. > > I had already been hanging on with the Linpus Linux Lite as wifi did not work properly with the Aspire One in earlier versions of Ubuntu. > > I would describe my self as a reasonably savvy user but not a "power user" and I don't have a deep understanding of the underlying systems. Consequently, I am not prepared, on the whole, to spend too much time hunting around for workarounds for things that do not work properly. > > Geoff Alternatively Ubuntu Classic (gnome) in natty would probably work (also it seems to me it's just the same version as maverick, sans applets, so I'll stick with 10.04 for the time being).
