Martin Owens wrote:
I disagree with with the poisonous gentleman. This is just yet more
deliberately negative opinion dressed up as fact.
Read this:
I used to be upset when gnome developers decided it was "too
complicated" for the user to remap some mouse buttons. In gnome3,
the developers have apparently decided that it's "too complicated"
to actually do real work on your desktop, and have decided to make
it really annoying to do.
Here's an example of "the crazy": you want a new terminal window. So
you go to "activities" and press the "terminal" thing that you've
made part of your normal desktop thing (but why can't I just have it
on the desktop, instead of in that insane "activities" mode?). What
happens? Nothing. It brings your existing terminal to the forefront.
That's just crazy crap. Now I need to use Shift-Control-N in an old
terminal to bring up a new one. Yeah, that's a real user experience
improvement. Sure.
I'm sure there are other ways, but that's just an example of the
kind of "head up the arse" behavior of gnome3. Seriously. I have
been asking other developers about gnome3, they all think it's
crazy.
I'm using Xfce. I think it's a step down from gnome2, but it's a
huge step up from gnome3. Really.
Linus Torvalds wrote that on Google+ a couple of years ago. If it's
negative opinion dressed as fact then it's an opinion that I share with
some very high-profile people.
That said, both KDE 4 and Gnome 3 have gotten better. They still lack
the polish of even Windows 7. Yeah, I do mean that. Windows 7 has some
rough edges but it's quite usable. I'll take it over any of the big 3
Linux desktops. In fact, I did. I've been using Windows 7 as my primary
desktop environment for about 3 years, now.
Richard, you obviously don't like Linux or Free Software; what are
you doing on this list at all except being a troll.
I don't dislike Linux. What I dislike is the mentality that Free
Software is inherently superior to everything else by dint of being Free
Software. That's crap. Software is a tool. I want my tools to work. I
want them to be reliable. I don't want them to break under stress. I
don't want them to be more difficult to use than the job at hand. If a
non-Free tool is superior to the Free one then I'll use it because it
works better. The license is irrelevant.
--
Rich P.
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