How to install Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 11.04 and still have a stable system?

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On 05/15/11 16:01, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 16:45, Amedee Van Gasse<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>  wrote:
>> For me, Linux is all about choice.
>> Suppose I wanted to install Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 11.04, how would I do that? I
>> have done my homework and used Google, but everything I found involves
>> adding ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 to the repository, and included a warning that
>> it will break Unity and that there was no downgrade path. But most of these
>> things were at least 2 months old, so before 11.04 was released.
>> I really want to have my cookie AND eat it, iow when I log in I want to
>> choose between Gnome 3 today, Unity tomorrow, KDE the day after and Fluxbox
>> the day after that.
>>
>> Anyone here who has successfully installed Gnome 3 on 11.04 and still has
>> Unity?
>>
>
> Amedee, one of my users installed Xubuntu instead of Ubuntu for this
> round. He is very satisfied though I myself have not looked at it. It
> is very similar to Gnome he reports, and he says it is not sluggish
> anymore (I did not even know that he felt Gnome was sluggish). In
> truth he downloaded Xubuntu by accident as I actually recommened
> Kubuntu, not Xubuntu!
>

Thank you for your contribution, but it's not really an answer, is it? :)