On 06/20/2011 11:53 AM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 10:44 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> There is a paradigm shift going from Gnome2 to Gnome3 which I have not >> seen discussed on this list. >> >> Gnome2 is totally mouse oriented. Everything you want to do you do by >> moving the mouse and clicking. Obviously I am rerring to Gnome2 itself >> not applications. >> >> However, in Gnome3 a large fraction of actions have been moved to the >> keyboard. > > Found another can of worms to open? ;-) > > It just seems another oddity. Using the mouse, or other pointing > device, was seen as making things easier for the non-computer literate, > who distinctly hated typing for the command line interface. Yet, now, > we're going to make them use the keyboard, albeit for a command line > interface in a GUI... > > Linux has recently been pushed as "must get it onto ordinary desktops," > but who for? (With RHEL and its ilk for corporate, Fedora (and its ilk) > for home.) > > Is a corporation going to want to spend $100 per graphics card per PC, > so that the default Gnome 3 actually works, or are they going to > continue to only want to put in the $20 graphics card? (That just won't > work with the new all-singing, all-dancing, Gnome 3.) So there's the > next RHEL with Gnome shot down in flames. > > Likewise, the *average* home user faces the same quandary, and most > people buy underpowered computers. So that's Fedora out of the > question. > > It's really only the die-hard computer nuts who have the expensive > graphics cards, and those tend to the gamers hooked on Windows games > like World of Warcraft, or whatever the current fad is. So that's > virtually any type of Linux ignored. > > If you do want to run flashy 3D environments on Fedora, are there any > other realistic choices than ATI or Nvidia, and the proprietary drivers, > to get it working? That, also, doesn't look good for Fedora. > > The phrase, "shooting oneself in the foot," springs to mind. > I don't agree about the graphics. I'm using a 5 year old Radeon card that came standard in this Dell. Every Enterprise-level Dell I've bought (except those for some graphic designers) uses the basic graphics card. Gnome 3 works OK for me on this Radeon. I don't do any gaming, however. -- -- Steve -- 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
