On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> wrote: > In my case, Unity didn't work with VirtualBox, so Ubuntu automatically switched to GNOME. I'm pretty sure that there must be an easy way for people to manually switch from Unity to GNOME when installing Ubuntu. I'll bet that FreeGeek (which installs Ubuntu on donated computers) is looking into this. > There is an easy way. When you are at the login screen there is a dropdown that defaults to "Ubuntu" and you can select "Ubuntu Classic" to get GNOME rather than Unity. - Justin