Yeah I totally agree. In two years, Ubuntu has gone from one of my favorite distros to one of my least favorite. I'm on 11.04 and I'll probably stay here until it's EOL'ed then move to Mint.
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I was on Ubuntu from 6.10 to 11.04. Then switched to Mint Cinnamon Maya (based off Ubuntu 12.04) recently. Cinnamon looks a lot more like Gnome 2, and loving it. I'm back to installing whatever applets I want! Maya being an LTS, all the better! I recommend you try it
I'm on 11.04 as well. I'm still trying to find a good desktop alternative. So far there is not much and KDE certainly isn't an option. I'm keeping an eye on Mint as well but I'm not sure if that's going to be it..
Why are you still on 11.04? 12.04 is the LTS release and nearly everyone should be running that this point.
If you didn't get it from my previous comment, the reason I;m still on 11.04 is because it's the last version of Ubuntu shipped with GNOME 2, i.e. the last decent desktop environment...
You're kinda unclear as to what the LTS stands for, aren't you?