[arch-general] end of the war! Mate has come to archlinux...

[fredbezies]

2011/12/9 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>:
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> 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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> +++
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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

:)


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Frederic Bezies
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