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heiowge · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:14 pm Post subject: Letter...

As a long term Gnome user, I would like to personally thank the Ubuntu and Gnome teams for Unity and Gnome 3.

As a result of you lot messing with my beloved desktop, I have now permanently switched to KDE.

Learning to use KDE was a more pleasurable experience than the hellish times I've had recently trying to get both your new abominations to function without menu bars disappearing, applications crashing or my desktop booting to a plain black page.

KDE isn't Gnome, but it works and it's got a future, unlike Gnome 2.*
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lok1950 · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:43 pm Post subject:

Haven't tried it much yet still stuck in Win7 Embarassed

but I will give fedora's implementation of 3 a work out as soon as I get connectivity Linux side Smile

Enjoy the Choice Smile

heiowge · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 11:20 pm Post subject:

Yeah, the Fedora implementation of G3 is probably better than it is on a Debian based distro. I don't know. I never got fedora15 out of classic mode successfully. Crying or Very sad

To be fair, it might have a better uptake if Gnome had bothered to offer it for Debian distros. I searched their forum and couldn't find a single reference to whether they plan to do so, or when. I suspect they're in a p*** with Ubuntu over Unity, and assume if you use it, you must want Unity.
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Dutch_Master · LXF regular Joined: Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:49 am Posts: 2353

I use Debian. And I want neither... Crying or Very sad

The Gnome 2 interface was/is fine as it is now, why change a winner anyway? Linux is for choice right? Then why push me a rubbish solution through the throat for a problem that doesn't exist? Evil or Very Mad

heiowge · Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:24 am Post subject:

Agreed. My concern is that in a years time, my OS won't support gnome2 anymore.
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paulm · Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 10:09 am Post subject:

I'm glad to say that I've disliked Gnome for ages, hate KDE (wasn't fond of the 3.xx series even). So I'm going on as I was - Xfce all the way.....

Paul.

Nerdy-ish · Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:46 pm Post subject: Re: Letter...

heiowge · Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:57 pm Post subject:

Actually I did go through that. Luckily for me it was just when I had started using Linux, so switching to Gnome wasn't painful at all. This upgrade is only painful because I've got used to Gnome 2.*
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nelz · Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:04 pm Post subject: Re: Letter...

ajgreeny · Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:04 pm Post subject:

@ helowge.

Have you looked at xfce yet, ie Xubuntu instead of the difficult to use Unity on 11.04?

I am still on Ubuntu 10.04 at the moment so Unity has not really affected me, but on my test partition install of 11.04, which will only run Unity 2d, I just can not find my way around it at all. Perhaps it will improve with 11.10 or 12.04, but if not, Xubuntu, which I have as 11.04 on another test partition, will probably become my choice, as I don't like KDE either now that it is v4, though I did like KDE 3.5.9.
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heiowge · Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:15 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I tried XFCE. It's not bad, but I preferred the switch to KDE over the one to XFCE.

I guess XFCE looked too much like Gnome, so it annoyed me when it didn't work the same way. KDE looks different. In fact it looks like Windows 7. Any differences then remind me that it's not Windows, so I can celebrate rather than get in a p***. Laughing

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Brian Hunter · Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:43 am Post subject:

I've been using Xfce for about 2 months now and it's really grown on me. I setup a new Arch install which uses Xfce and it has been the most fun I have had with Linux yet. A really interesting experience.

heiowge · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:40 pm Post subject:

Well, it's been a week and I don't feel a burning need to return to Gnome. I have Gnome on my laptop and am seriously considering switching over there as well...

I tried lots of different distros and found it easier to switch desktop environment than to switch distro. I guess I just know all the software I use is in the repositories...

I guess I can say to Gnome and Ubuntu that I appreciate what you're trying to do, but I don't like it. So you've lost me as a user... until KDE 5 puts me off! Laughing

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