Hi y'all.
I have a Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS "Lucid". It was originally a server edition.
One of the reasons I updated it haven't is because I don't like the Unity GUI.
It's becoming apparent that I'm going to have to update soon, but I still don't want to use Unity.
What I'd like to end up with is either xfce or perhaps cinamon as the desktop. (any other suggestions?)
I'm wondering if this would work: uninstall the ubuntu-desktop package remove any obvious gnome desktop packages. command line update to a more recent verision of ubuntu (the most recent LTS?) then install either a package for xfce, or perhaps xubuntu-desktop package, or perhaps a cinamon package.
Do people think this would work? I'm resisting doing a fresh install from scratch then restoring data, packages etc, because I've installed a lot of stuff over the years and tweaked all sorts of things, so I think it'd take me a long while to get it right. It's my server so I don't want to be without it for a long time.
Any advice please?
Regards Steve