Paradigm shift going from Gnome2 to Gnome3

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On 06/22/2011 01:09 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> But does Fedora 15 "require high end hardware"? No, it doesn't. You can
> run other desktops, such as XFCE (which you mention as well), and still
> run all of the same apps.
> 
> So while Gnome 3 may require better video hardware than was available on
> an eight year old machine, that doesn't mean Fedora 15 itself requires
> that better hardware.

Right; and even Gnome 3 will run just fine on older hardware - it'll just resort
to fallback mode and the Gnome 2 style environment that so many people seem to
miss so much.

Cheers,
Bryn.