On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 10:44 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > as a Linux user you have a VARIETY of desktops to select from. > GNOME is just one of them. Actually, there is a little bit more to it than that... At the basic level, yes, you can pick a desktop that appears in a manner that pleases you. But there's other things that Gnome and KDE have handled, that some other desktops have not (hardware ownership, automatic disk mounting, networking, etc.). What irritates me, and others, was that we found Gnome 2 to be just about what we wanted, in a myriad of ways. But Gnome 3 is just too different that we now need to find something else that is how Gnome 2 used to be. Or, jumping distros to one of the long-term ones, that still uses Gnome 2, and doesn't do major package updates within its lifespan. We're back to finding the "least objectionable" out of several choices. Which doesn't bode well for software design, in general, when that's your method of choosing something, rather than looking for "the best." Unfortunately, that seems to be par for the course. I see the sense in pushing the boundaries for high end computing. I don't see the sense in making low end computing require high end hardware. What's low end computing? Email, web browsing, not playing video games. It's just gross inefficiency to require a 4 GHz computer to do that. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- 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
