I am running Ubuntu 15.10 but using the Gnome 3 environment.
I am unable to use Unity because it appears that the Gnome shell breaks Unity and it no longer displays if I start an Ubuntu session.
So, is it safe to remove Unity and Ubuntu-Desktop and still receive Ubuntu updates and new release upgrades for the Gnome3 desktop environment?
ie, when the next LTS is released can I still upgrade the kernel, packages and Gnome shell to the newer versions or do I need to keep Unity and Ubuntu-Desktop installed?
Not an issue to leave it there, but I do not want to break my system if Gnome Shell is somehow conflicting with Unity environment.
Thanks
Installing Gnome 3 in Ubuntu 15.10
Video Instruction HERE
Replacing Unity with Gnome 3 Instruction HERE
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop ubuntu-gnome-default-settings
sudo apt-get install gnome-documents gnome-boxes
(When prompted, select GDM as the default display manager.)
sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-settings
sudo apt-get remove unity
sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar*
(Reboot, when logging in check Gnome desktop environment has been selected in the login screen.)
When removing Unity, 6,5 MB of packages were removed, as expected ubuntu-desktop got removed. Network Manager still there, which is good - serg
ubuntu-desktop is a meta package, the system will be fine without it -
uninstalling it simply uninstalls that meta package -Mateo
So ubuntu-gnome-desktop installed and unity and ubuntu-desktop are out, everything works fine. I suppose the answer is "it's pretty much safe" -Serg
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