On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Michael Schwendt wrote: >> On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 08:08:45 -0700 (PDT), Antonio wrote: >> >>> Many folks[*That have a comfort zone with Gnome 2.X*] will stick to Fedora 14 till they can adapt to GNOME 3 or [...] >>> >> >> Just like those users, who try to delay an upgrade for several months in >> hope that the dist will have ironed out most errors by then and will be >> more stable. Only to learn that once they've done the upgrade, they >> discover bugs. Often pet peeve bugs even. ;) One can only repeat: Guys, >> take a look at a Fedora release *much* earlier and try to find and >> report bugs much earlier. > > We were told that GNOME3 was NOTABUG, so what to do now? > Sad to say, but if we want 'Joe Average User' to use Linux, we are going to have to dumb it down. Take a look at the giant leap between Windows 3.x and Windows95 in the dumb down department. For those of us that know what we are doing there are always alternatives. I know how to massively break and root MacOSX. Would I recommend that to the Sorority gal that is doing a terrible job with an Excel spreadsheet, nope. For the dude/gal with the MSCS, sure. I have not looked at KDE4 under the hood, but I suspect there is not a thing that I cannot do from the command line that I have to do with a GUI. That's just me. BTW, I've just spent the better part of three weeks trying to get a script to build Wine on my Mac. Adventures in programming/scripting I say.... James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
