Re: One very unhappy Linux user

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Jan has my sympathy. I joined this list shortly before the change and was truly appalled when Gnome 3 was imposed on me. I thought I was upgrading Fedora and was faced with a new and incomprehensible desktop, which felt like everything I was trying to get away from on Windows and MACs. I think Fedora was at fault here. Gnome 3 was a step-change, not an upgrade. Perhaps it is still possible to get Gnome3 to behave more like Gnome 2 but in order to do this I have to learn how to use the new Gnome 3 before I can get back to the old ways.

I think we are at a fork in the desktop user interface. There will be users who mostly use tablets, and when they come to a PC will wish to use a similar interface. Others like myself prefer the keyboard and mouse and clunky, old, easily-comprehensible ways of working. We have come a long way in the last 40 years and I would not want to go back to punch cards and paper tape, but I cannot see that stuff like Gnome 3 is going to make me more productive in my remaining years.

Barry



Jan Mussche wrote:
Hello,

I have joined this mailing list since I feel I have to get in close contact to the people who have taken away all the fun in computing. After having used Linux with great joy for several years, I am now very disappointed. The new Gnome 3, sorry for my language, stinks. How can somebody come up with the idea to turn a computer into a smartphone or tablet? What were you thinking? Gnome 2.32 was flexible, 3.x is not flexible at all. Are you sponsored by Microsoft because it sure looks like it, since Microsoft also tells us how to use a computer.

We are stuck with a top panel nobody wants, because it is useless.
We are stuck with a way of using the computer nobody wants since it is simply madness.

Also you must have seen the many comments of different forums where people complain about the new Gnome and who are starting to use KDE, LXDE and/or XFCE. Is that what you want? Was that the plan, scaring away people? If so then why bother making a new Gnome, you could have better just stopped completely. Now Linux distributions are trying their best to make the interface look as much as possible to what it used to be but they are hindered by your way of presenting things, without any flexibility at all.

If you want people to keep using Gnome you simply have to change back to what Gnome was. If not you will see a large decrease of people hanging on to it and I can not say it in a different way: this is what you deserve.

One very unhappy Linux user.



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