On 04/26/2011 11:03 AM, Chris O'Connell wrote: > These are great points. The apparent goal behind Gnome3 is to attract NEW > users, not to address the needs and wants of the existing user base. > > I'm always a huge fan of soliciting ideas and feedback from users, but I > think this philosophy is lost on many developers and the management that > guides them. > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Ben Eisenbraun <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think what was most interesting to me about the direction GNOME 3 took is >> that someone still believes in the possibility of mainstream use of Linux >> on the desktop! >> >> The CEO of Red Hat basically said that the "linux desktop" market was not a >> goal for them, and yet we had two Red Hat employees talking about how they >> were "streamlining" the GNOME 3 interface for the "casual user". >> >> In Owen's defense, he specifically said at one point that the audience in >> the room was not the target for the GNOME 3 redesign. They must have known >> they were going to anger the nerds... :-) What we have in the Linux community is choices. If we don't like Gnome 3, we can use KDE, or Xfce, or LXDE or simply a basic command line environment. A while back we had a discussion of the changes from inittab (the 30 year old startup paradigm) to upstart. Certainly, many of us prefer to use text files to configure our systems. But, many people prefer to use GUI-based utilites. Coming from Digital's Tru64, I much preferred SuSE's YAST since it was very similar to the way we configured Tru64. But some of us don't like the Sauron approach of One Ring to Rule them All. For me, I tend to prefer the GUI or text-based UI for network, but I much prefer the command line to add or remove users. The basic issue is simply that, while I am the only one here with a degree from Whopper College, we in the Linux community similar to Burger King, like to "Have it Our Way" In Windows you get 1 desktop environment, and in Linux we have a choice of many, and if we don't like one we can easily go to another, or even write our own.
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