I don't know that they'd remove a printer driver... I've been using Ubuntu for many years, but I've never used Gnome, Unity or KDE (I use Window Maker, as I have since 1996!). I'm lead to believe you can get the "Classic" Gnome on the newer Ubuntus. It was announced very recently that they're turning back from that stupid integrated menubar thing, too. If you have the resources to make a bit-by-bit copy of your harddrive, you can always try upgrading and then downgrade back if you don't like it. I'd say try a live install on a USB thumbdrive, but that will for SURE be slow. On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, paul g wrote: > Yes, and thank you for asking. I am running this older version of Ubuntu on > a Centrino Duo Laptop. I guess because I was so unimpressed with the 12.04 > performance on my old p4 tower. Also I have an older Lexmark x5070 printer > that has a driver for the 10.04 Ubuntu. I don't like Gnome 3 maybe i'm just > slow and I am not really used to KDE. Any suggestions would be wonderful. > > Thank You. > > > Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 20:24:28 -0600 > > From: tclug at freakzilla.com > > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Will Firefox 20.0 become obselete for basic use? > > > > Might be some small things that won't work, but in general you should be > > fine. > > > > Of course, as time goes on, those small things will get bigger and bigger. > > Still, basic HTML with basic javascript should be fine for a long time. It > > all depends on what kind of content you want. > > > > May I ask why you're running such an old version of Ubuntu? > > > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, paul g wrote: > > > > > For a basic home/office computer user running an older FireFox version > say > > > '20.0' under Ubuntu 10.04 etc '2.6.-- kernel' will new web pages and > webpage > > > design soon require the need for a later version of FireFox or Opera to > > > 'surf' the web? Just a curious question I am a noob. > > > > > > Thank You. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >