Custom Partition Fedora 18

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 02/17/2013 08:22 AM, jonc wrote:
> On 02/17/2013 06:35 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>
>> Funny you should say that. I am a refugee to KDE on non-RAM-limited 
>> machines specifically because I found Gnome 3 so utterly unusable 
>> when I first saw it that I cannot imagine myself ever trying it 
>> again. And I use XFCE on my ARM machines with limited amounts of RAM. 
>> Not only am I not convinced that the Gnome 3 developers know what 
>> their users' needs are, I am not convinced that they even know who 
>> their users are; and this is fine for the reasons I've said before - 
>> it's their project to run or ruin as they please. What I find harder 
>> to explain is why distribution packagers are annoying their users by 
>> entertaining the project maintainers' experiments.
>>
>> Gordan
>
> FOSS has no reliable and accurate way of determining who likes what. 
> Anecdotal online remarks represent only the view of the self-selected 
> people who post them. We are typically much more motivated by 
> dissatisfaction to make the effort to complain than we are by 
> satisfaction. Developers and designers have no particular reason to 
> assume that people who go online to attack, or praise, their products 
> represent broader opinion.
>
> Many of the anti-Gnome 3 rants allege the developers and designers 
> broke a bond of trust with users when they abandoned Gnome 2, that 
> they have some kind of ethical obligation to let user wishes guide 
> their efforts (ignoring the reality that user wishes cannot be known 
> in any accurate way).  I think that attitude is bogus and comes from a 
> fundamental misunderstanding of the reasons FOSS exists.
>
> My own preference for Gnome Shell, suitably tweaked, makes sense to 
> me.  The last version of Windows I bought for my own use was the first 
> XP release, which was rather a long time ago.  I've used  both Linux 
> and OS X for more than 15 years. On Linux, I spent a lot of time with 
> Slackware and window managers like WindowMaker. I've always preferred 
> an empty desktop, and docks to panels. I did spend a lot of time with 
> Gnome 2 on CentOS, but never used multiple workspaces because I can't 
> be bothered to switch between them. Ditto on OS X.
>
> So, I've never really like the panel and desktop icons approach common 
> to Windows/KDE/Gnome2/XFCE.  My personal preference, though, doesn't 
> mean that the designers and developers of those environments are doing 
> something wrong.  Some people like vanilla, some chocolate, some 
> strawberry.  It's all ice cream.
>
As far as I'm concerned I love Gnome 3.x!......I figure this is WAY 
better than the horrible interface from Windows Vista!


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