2011/12/9 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>: [...]
I think you're wrong, completely wrong. Gnome 2 and Mate are dead-end. If you think gnome 3 suck, so gnome 3 users suck too. Thank you.
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Frederic :), this is a bad conclusion. There's nothing wrong with a user who is comfortable with GNOME 3. It's
I prefer that ;)
just that GNOME 3 comes with several side effects. I'll install GNOME 3 myself, but I don't like it for some usage >that's important for me and for my DAW I'll use Xfce. When I'm e.g. forced to use a proprietary graphics driver to >run a DE, this is what I'll call a dead end, especially if I need to offend a software licence to use a DE with a
If you have a nvidia chipset, you can use nouveau driver with gnome 3. See Fedora for example ;)
kernel-rt and a Nvidia graphics. I also guess that a good tool shouldn't be dropped. If a DE, such as GNOME 2 >enables a good workflow, it's not helpful to break this workflow.
Gnome 2 is a dead end on technology side. Main programs will sooner or later move to gtk3.
Linux users are a minority group and a lot of us chose Linux, because it's a reliable tool freelance from marketing. >At least with Debian I experienced GNOME 3 as problematic, comparable to current M$ and Apple fashions that I >don't want on my machine. Some users need to use GNOME 3's fallback mode, you might run top, too see what >happens if you do this.
I tried Gnome-Shell with debian wheezy and it works not too bad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5UoR4nX6gM
YMMV!
Ralf
:) -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies@gmail.com