I have just completed a new install using the latest Install/Live CD 2009.02 I followed the Beginners Guide (exactly :) including the update. I continued until I finished with install Xorg and Gnome. After setting up .xinitrc to run Gnome I issued a startx to start Xorg and Gnome. 1. When clicking the "Users home dir icon" to launch Nautilus and browsing to test it, I then clicked the "X" to stop the app from running ( upper right on the window ) Nautilus crashed and Gnome restarted, cleared the desktop (refreshed) and generated a bug report to be set to gnome.org (via bug buddy). 2. After installing Evolution ans running the app I made some errors when I initially set it up for my imap server. Clicking/running from the Edit->Preferences menu caused evolution to crash and generating a bug report. I can not use the Edit->Preferences menu at all, making the evolution installation worthless as I can not change any settings. How stable is Gnome on Arch Linux? I need to move from KDE3 to Gnome until KDE4 is finished and debugged. Comments/Fixes Anyone? Thanks