On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> wrote:
Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 08:08:45 -0700 (PDT), Antonio wrote:
>
>> Many folks[*That have a comfort zone with Gnome 2.X*] will stick to Fedora 14
till they can adapt to GNOME 3 or [...]
>>
>
> Just like those users, who try to delay an upgrade for several months in
> hope that the dist will have ironed out most errors by then and will be
> more stable. Only to learn that once they've done the upgrade, they
> discover bugs. Often pet peeve bugs even. ;) One can only repeat: Guys,
> take a look at a Fedora release *much* earlier and try to find and
> report bugs much earlier.
We were told that GNOME3 was NOTABUG, so what to do now?
Sad to say, but if we want 'Joe Average User' to use Linux, we are
going to have to dumb it down. Take a look at the giant leap between
Windows 3.x and Windows95 in the dumb down department.
For those of us that know what we are doing there are always
alternatives. I know how to massively break and root MacOSX. Would I
recommend that to the Sorority gal that is doing a terrible job with
an Excel spreadsheet, nope. For the dude/gal with the MSCS, sure.
I have not looked at KDE4 under the hood, but I suspect there is not a
thing that I cannot do from the command line that I have to do with a
GUI. That's just me.
BTW, I've just spent the better part of three weeks trying to get a
script to build Wine on my Mac. Adventures in programming/scripting I
say....
James McKenzie