Trisquel and unity
Hello.. I want to change to trisquel from ubuntu and I wonder about unity.
I saw that there are ways to install unity together with the default UI, but i was trying for some days to (on a virtual machine) install trisquel without any UI and then install unity. what happens after install is that I "cannot start session" as it says.. is this just in the virtual machine you think or is the same problem gonna show up on a real install..
After install i did the suggested commands here:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-install-unity-desktop-environment-and-create-session-entry-trisquel-70
I also tried to run "sudo aptitude install -f" after unity install to check for more needed dependencies.
The virtual machine is virtualbox on ubuntu with the 64bit iso (as the 32bit does not work with netinstall for some reason.)
I could try to install it on a usb, but I am afraid to somehow overwrite my main harddrive.
Also to add.. I want to only have Unity desktop, to save space, but also because it is the only one keeping my workflow on my laptop.
Hope for some good suggestions.. peace :)
My first gut reaction was, "Why would anybody want to install Unity?" But I realize that in a sense I'm trolling and to each his own preferences... De gustibus non est disputandum...
Since I don't use Unity, I can't offer specific help, but let me make a suggestion that hopefully will prove helpful. Try installing Trisquel with a GUI first, then follow the directions for installing Unity. This approach serves two purposes. First, you make sure X is working (troubleshooting an incompletely installed or incorrectly configured X can be a real pain). Second, package dependencies don't always make sense. Earlier this morning I completely removed X from my laptop (xorg-xserver*, etc. -- because, as I said before, troubleshooting is a pain, and reinstalling all that stuff turned out to be easier). I noticed that removing X took out a bunch of stuff that depended on it, as expected, but didn't take out everything that should depend on it. In particular, GHex, Code::Blocks, Calibre, gschem, and other GUI apps were still installed. These should depend on X (or depend on things that depend on X), shouldn't they? If there are missing links in the dependency chains, then you might not be pulling in everything actually needed to run Unity.
tl;dr -- My suggestion is try installing a full regular Trisquel with the standard GUI, then adding Unity after everything else is working...
I installed unity just installing the regular unity packages, without following those instructions in the link. Although I did that after installing standard Trisquel, as suggested above.
@jstoddard, Unity, in spite of having millions of enemies, is quite convenient for small screens for having those menus in the window titles! (And that's the only reason I find to install Unity, so I won't follow up any discussion about this, hehe)
I really like Unity, even though everyone hates on it. The version in Trisquel 8 should be much better as it is leaner on resources and has the online services disabled by default.
I really don't have anything against Unity or its users. I simply am not one of them. I'm sure if I used it for a couple of weeks, it'd grow on me. My initial reaction to Gnome 3's shell was one of repulsion, but I ran it for a month or two and almost came to like it -- or at least got used to it and stopped despising it... Maybe someday I'll do the same for Unity...
I am a translator!
De gustibus non est disputandum, but it is without any doubt the worst thing I've ever seen on a screen :)