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Unity doesn’t load, no Launcher, no Dash appears

I installed fresh (replaced Windows). I checked the "Update" and "Third-party" checkboxes during install. Everything going great, I entered my name/password. It seemed to install everything. But then after the FIRST reboot (it told me it needed to reboot after successful install) it an error message came up - very non-descript. Just asked me if I wanted to send report the error, and then it had another dialog to reboot. I rebooted again, and this time, I just get the desktop. At first I thought it was broken, but I could right click. So I created a folder, then got into the file structure. Then I could load some things, Firefox, etc. But obviously something went wrong. I know nothing about Ubuntu, BUT I am a pretty smart guy. I guessed that "Unity" is a big part of Ubunuty's OS. So, I found some terminal commands and, well I'll just paste below what I got and maybe someone (anyone?!) can help me! I LOVE Ubuntu so far! FYI - my the PC I am trying to use is a Dell OptiPlex, Pentuium 4 @ 2.7 GHz, 512MB RAM.

http://pastebin.com/6QMpU8WP

You can see there are several Unity errors. Maybe Ubuntu just win't work? :-(

What other linux options do I have to make an old PC, a simple fast web browser?

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Nathan Smith
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You could try Lubuntu, a version of Ubuntu that uses the LXDE desktop (instead of Unity) and runs on older systems with less resources (it only needs between 384-800 MB of RAM and will work with even less if you use the alternate installer).

It will still run all the same applications that the regular version of Ubuntu (with Unity) can run, except that the ones installed by default are different.

iBelieve
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I think that reading what you posted is the answer: compiz (core) - Info: Unity is not supported by your hardware. Enabling software rendering instead (slow)..

Maybe you need to install third-party drivers if you have dedicated graphic card.

Look at login, if you can choose Fallback mode. Else try installing it or another interface, like XFCE. (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/xfce)

JorgeeFG
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