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Fall of Ubuntu, Rise of Mint

Its been few months since Ubuntu launched its latest version 11.10 aka "Oneiric Ocelot". First noticeable change GNOME Shell is no longer the default. It kinda pissed me off since I find Unity annoying. Ubuntu 11.04 had the classic GNOME Desktop as fallback so it didn't bother me when they introduced Unity. The current version does not support GNOME 2 nor does it allow one to install it. This situation had put in fix so much that I even considered moving from Ubuntu to some other Linux Distros after being its avid user for almost 6 years. I liked GNOME 2 interface since it was simple and even my dad who is retiree could use it ( BTW he was core Windows user until I introduced him to Ubuntu ). Therefore introducing my dad to a completely new interface would result in him being uncomfortable and eventually moving back to Windows. Hence I haven't installed the latest version of Ubuntu at home, in fact I still have the good old Ubuntu 9.04 which hasn't crashed s...