On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Dennis Beekman <d.c.beekman.devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We are being forced to use de's like openbox or xfce wich is the primary > reason people shy away from unix/linux when changing from Windows to another > OS. > It just becomes to confusing and complicated from they point of view and > they choose MAC or another Windows versions instead. Perhaps being 'forced' to those DEs is a good thing? Linux has lots of choices. Those who don't want choice can use some other OS just fine, all power to them. > > Even i as a seasoned linux user ho switched over from ubuntu to arch a while > ago it doesn't make any sense to me why they would do this.... i tell you > the amount of Gnome users in my point is view in going to halve if not drop > any further then that. > > But ofcourse it is Gnome at fault here and not ARCH but still, can we not > keeps the latest "old" version from before the release in the nomal repo's > until they update 3.0 a couple of times ? > No, because that's not how Arch works. Gnome3 is not broken, nor will it break anyone's computer. Arch is bleeding-edge, it said so on the sticker when you installed it =)
