On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 12:35 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 09/18/2011 12:16 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
That said, I mostly find GNOME 3 usable on my laptop and acceptable on my desktop. Not nearly perfect yet, but usable.
The first sentence sounds like a remarkably tepid acceptance, but the two together suggest that you find it good enough for your purposes that you're not interested in changing your DE. If so, I'm glad for you.
I'm willing to see how things develop. This is a phase of the project where developments will come quickly and may improve the user experience dramatically. I'm not frustrated enough to bolt at this point, and I think the trajectory is positive.
Reading through the introduction at gnome.org and some other basic resources made the transition simpler than it would have been otherwise.
However, judging by the responses to this thread, you may be in the minority. (Of course, it might just be that only those of us who either tried it and disliked it or migrated preemptively are participating in this conversation.)
I think that's likely. I also note that several people have chimed in recently with a more positive take.
Again, I'd like to point out that this just demonstrates one of the biggest strengths of Linux: if you don't like the direction your DE is going in, you're free to change.
Absolutely!