Re: One very unhappy Linux user

[Barry Say <barry07 nspipes co uk>]

Jan has my sympathy. I joined this list shortly before the change and 
was truly appalled when Gnome 3 was imposed on me. I thought I was 
upgrading Fedora and was faced with a new and incomprehensible desktop, 
which felt like everything I was trying to get away from on Windows and 
MACs.  I think Fedora was at fault here. Gnome 3 was a step-change, not 
an upgrade.  Perhaps it is still possible to get Gnome3 to behave more 
like Gnome 2 but in order to do this I have to learn how to use the new 
Gnome 3 before I can get back to the old ways.

I think we are at a fork in the desktop user interface. There will be 
users who mostly use tablets, and when they come to a PC will wish to 
use a similar interface.  Others like myself prefer the keyboard and 
mouse and clunky, old, easily-comprehensible ways of working. We have 
come a long way in the last 40 years and I would not want to go back to 
punch cards and paper tape, but I cannot see that stuff like Gnome 3 is 
going to make me more productive in my remaining years.

Barry



Jan Mussche wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have joined this mailing list since I feel I have to get in close 
> contact to the people who have taken away all the fun in computing.
> After having used Linux with great joy for several years, I am now 
> very disappointed. The new Gnome 3, sorry for my language, stinks.
> How can somebody come up with the idea to turn a computer into a 
> smartphone or tablet? What were you thinking?
> Gnome 2.32 was flexible, 3.x is not flexible at all. Are you sponsored 
> by Microsoft because it sure looks like it, since Microsoft also tells 
> us how to use a computer.
>
> We are stuck with a top panel nobody wants, because it is useless.
> We are stuck with a way of using the computer nobody wants since it is 
> simply madness.
>
> Also you must have seen the many comments of different forums where 
> people complain about the new Gnome and who are starting to use KDE, 
> LXDE and/or XFCE. Is that what you want? Was that the plan, scaring 
> away people? If so then why bother making a new Gnome, you could have 
> better just stopped completely.
> Now Linux distributions are trying their best to make the interface 
> look as much as possible to what it used to be but they are hindered 
> by your way of presenting things, without any flexibility at all.
>
> If you want people to keep using Gnome you simply have to change back 
> to what Gnome was. If not you will see a large decrease of people 
> hanging on to it and I can not say it in a different way: this is what 
> you deserve.
>
> One very unhappy Linux user.
>
>
>
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