Re: Very disappointed in Gnome 3

[Calum Benson <calum benson oracle com>]

On 14 Aug 2011, at 18:10, alexander.wilms wrote:

> Someone on this mailing list mentioned that Linus ditched Gnome for XFCE and the response was that Gnome wasn't designed to be the DE for a Kernel hacker. But apparently he didn't have any issues with the previous release of Gnome, so I am wondering why this release doesn't target both newbies and experienced users.

Au contraire, Linus frequently complained about GNOME 2 as well. If he really liked GNOME 2 that much, there's no reason he couldn't still be using it, along with the hundreds of thousands, if not millions of others of current GNOME 2 users whose distros won't be updating to GNOME 3 anytime soon. But of course he's more than welcome to use XFCE instead -- such is the freedom of choice afforded to all of us in the world of free software.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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