[In the News] Fedora 17 & GNOME 3.4: Return to a useful Linux desktop (Review)

[Jason Brooks]

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Davi Garcia
<davigarcia at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Jason Brooks
> <jasonbrooks at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> In a brief ZDNet review, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols offers faint praise
>> for Fedora 17:
>
> "That said, I did find this new Fedora with GNOME to be usable. I have
> to say I didn’t find the last version to be at all useful. Still, I’m
> left wondering why Fedora and GNOME first went in such a mis-guided
> direction in the first place. It’s great that Fedora and GNOME are
> much better than they were, but they’re still not for me, anyway, as
> useful as the last Fedora with GNOME 2.x was. I can see that Fedora is
> better, but I’m going to be sticking with Linux Mint, Ubuntu, and
> openSUSE for my daily desktop use."
>
> To tell you the truth, I don't understand what people see of too bad
> in Gnome 3.X. I confess that I had some difficult at the beginning,
> but after some days, I loved it! Gnome 3 is the redefinition of the
> concept of desktop enviroment. Maybe people be just afraid of the
> change...

I think that's basically it, but maybe annoyed by change is a more apt
description. I've gotten used to GNOME 3, but at first, I was pretty
grumpy about it. I really missed gnome-panel, in particular.

Jason

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