Good article
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| Grishnakh Sep 27, 2011 10:33 PM EDT |
Aside from leaving out LXDE for some odd reason, this is good for pointing users to alternatives to the Unity and Gnome3 cr@p. Now we need some more distros that feature these alternative DEs prominently. |
| r_a_trip Sep 28, 2011 4:10 AM EDT |
My hope is that, somewhere along the line, a group of developers comes a long, who create a sane replacement for Gnome Shell. The rest of the Gnome technologies seem to be fine. It would be a pity if these were abandonned just because the official Shell is sub-par. I still can't wrap my head around it. Why did the Gnome developers think that an interface which only seems good for doing single tasking was a great idea? |
| Jeff91 Sep 28, 2011 9:18 AM EDT |
r_a_trip: They must have noticed the millions of people happily using iOS every day. ~Jeff |
| fewt Sep 28, 2011 9:33 AM EDT |
Quoting:They must have noticed the millions of people happily using iOS every day. The only problem with that is that a computer is not an appliance, nor should it be. Single-tasking is OK on a 4" screen, not a computer with a keyboard and mouse. Just sayin. |
| ComputerBob Sep 28, 2011 9:34 AM EDT |
Quoting:They must have noticed the millions of people happily using iOS every day. Do you have any stats on how many of them are using it on PC desktops? |
| Jeff91 Sep 28, 2011 10:23 AM EDT |
See I was fairly certain with Gnome's recent interface choices they where now targeting the mobile/tablet market. Their GUI doesn't appear to be optimized for a desktop operating system at all. Plus I'm sure if Apple put iOS on a desktop like lemmings off a cliff many of the Apple faithful would use it and claim it was the best thing since sliced bread. ~Jeff |
| fewt Sep 28, 2011 10:45 AM EDT |
Quoting:See I was fairly certain with Gnome's recent interface choices they where now targeting the mobile/tablet market. Their GUI doesn't appear to be optimized for a desktop operating system at all. grumble grumble grumble |
| r_a_trip Sep 28, 2011 11:30 AM EDT |
See I was fairly certain with Gnome's recent interface choices they where now targeting the mobile/tablet market. when using Gnome 3 (but not too much, thank you), you certainly feel that the interface is made for limited interaction. One has to wonder though, why make a tablet interface, when your bread and butter (mostly) is Corporate Desktops? I've heard rumours that Gnome Shell is a "Red Hat" project, but looking at Shell, it screams consumer touch and drool. Why would Red Hat want to foul up their chosen desktop environment? Doesn't make sense. Gnome Shell is an interface desperately in search of a tablet and that isn't Red Hat's turf. < tin foil hat > Red Hat wants to switch to KDE, but is afraid of the Gnome userbase backlash. Ruining Gnome would facilitate an easy switch and gratitude of a group of users who otherwise would form a mob with pitch forks. < / tin foil hat > |
| djohnston Sep 28, 2011 4:02 PM EDT |
Quoting:The rest of the Gnome technologies seem to be fine. Well, GDM3 isn't. It's slow as molasses and can be a RAM hog. |
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