Pinguy OS 11.04 Will Be Based on Ubuntu 11.04

I think disabling compiz is a good move, seems to be a lot of overhead for so little pay-off on a live-cd/freshly installed system.

Whilst its nice to see the Linux community actually doing something and providing alternatives rather than just whining about the turgid piece of crap that is Unity, I'd like to point out that in Ubuntu 11.04 you can very easily choose "Ubuntu Classic" option at login which gives you the nice familiar Gnome environment just like older Ubuntu versions, so it seems like Pinguy is pretty much redundant. Ubuntu Classic 11.04 also finally fixes the very annoying problem where the resize zone (bottom right hand corner of window frames) was practically impossible to locate and use.
I did read that Mr. Shuttleworth said he will stupidly be killing the "Ubuntu Classic" option in the next release leaving Unity as the only option. If that happens I'll just stick with 11.04 in classic mode until Unity is killed off or hell freezes over.

Whilst its nice to see the Linux community actually doing something and providing alternatives rather than just whining about the turgid piece of crap that is Unity, I'd like to point out that in Ubuntu 11.04 you can very easily choose "Ubuntu Classic" option at login which gives you the nice familiar Gnome environment just like older Ubuntu versions, so it seems like Pinguy is pretty much redundant. Ubuntu Classic 11.04 also finally fixes the very annoying problem where the resize zone (bottom right hand corner of window frames) was practically impossible to locate and use.
I did read that Mr. Shuttleworth said he will be stupidly removing the "Ubuntu Classic" option by 11.10 leaving Unity as the only option. If that happens 11.04 will have been the last Ubuntu I'll ever download.

Pinguy is one of a few decent alternatives to Ubuntu, namely Mint and Zorin. I prefer it over Mint; and Zorin is pretty but dumbed down worse than Unity. Zorin's download server is painfully slow unless you pay. Pinguy is loaded with apps and configurations that save time in set up too. I understand that there will be "add to panel" options restored as well. This is not a current option in either Ubuntu or Pinguy 11.04 beta. Pinguy is well worth a look for people looking for a desktop to use for real work (unlike Unity).

Even if you pay Zorin download host is painfully slow. like 20-50kb/s maximum

ordered the OS 5 Ultimate 64bit Edition (3.7gb) and it took 9 hrs to download 400mb.

tried a download accelerator which increased it to 120Kb/s but ended in a corrupt file, tried again and was getting 600Kb/s but once again corrupt file.

Total ripoff... Oh but wait you can pay again to get the DVD sent to you.

PinguyOS and Linux Mint work out of the box and have the good stuff as standard and aren't in the least bit complicated for a soley windows user unless you are a novice.