Gnome 3 - The end !?

[Juan Conejero]

For Linux users — I've found an interesting article about Gnome 3 on Dedoimedo:

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gnome-3.html

I absolutely agree with everything said on this article —well, everything except the final "... seek solace in the conservative familiarity of Windows" remark, although I certainly can understand that after half an hour playing (literally ... nothing else can be done!) with Gnome 3. Anybody else feeling the same pain about Gnome trying to turn our workstations into smartphones? Comments?

[dayers]

Thank you for the link, Juan. As perhaps your only 80-year-old user, you might not be too surprised to learn that I tend to be a little conservative. So far I have not gotten past reading the Gnome 3 reviews, but I will be setting up a virtual machine to take a look for myself one of these days. I have been thoroughly hooked on Linux for a long time, and currently run PI on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (32-bit).

And while I'm at it, thanks for your thorough tutorials. They have really helped me scramble up the learning curve a little swifter (and I'm not too swift these days).

Dave

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Dave,

You are welcome.

... that I tend to be a little conservative

Just a little bit isn't bad. I think it is a sign of wisdom, especially considering how things evolve lately

[Ioannis Ioannou]

Juan, not to be negative, but what is all about ?
OK, Gnome tries to be more like Maemo (I have maemo on my phone and it is great for a phone) or android or iphone/ipad. Ubuntu folllows - they even have a Ubuntu store for God's shake ! . During the last upgrade I also got mad when I found my desktop switched to an android-like tablet, until I found the way to switch back to the old environment. So what ? When things like this prevented real Linux users using the OS ? You always know (and you knew it since 1994) that you have to put your personal touch on it every time, and IMHO it is part of the fun. Personally I do not care for commercial games and/or adaptability of the OS to the end market - we tried this the last decade and frankly it failed. There is Mint (as the article says) and there is always Debian and there is IceWM and there is KDE and whatever. As soon as the repository is there and/or as soon as the software is always there, who (from us that really like Linux) really-really cares ?

Just my 2 cents