On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Tim Murphy <tnmur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 May 2011 18:55, Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 10:48 -0700, Micah Carrick wrote: > >> I'll give you a quick answer to that... > >> When we first switch to GNOME 3, many of us did not realize we were > >> not upgrading, but switching to a completely new beast. I actually had > >> to take a day off work to comb the internet learning about what's > >> going on and why (we aren't all in the loop with GNOME Journal and > >> Planet GNOME and the like). GNOME 3 is a radical shift away from what > >> we are used to. > > > > Yes, it is. It is revolutionary. And I believe that > > GNOME3-is-a-big-change was very heavily publicized. > > > >> So we do a few Google searches and we find a much larger percentage of > >> un-resolved complaints and the same ones over and over. > > > > Of course - search on *anything* and this is true; it is the nature of > > the beast. People post "complaints", they don't post "works > > awesome" (because the are busy using whatever it is). In my experience > > positive posts are often taken as counter productive. > > There are hidden negatives too - the linux users in my office, for > example, tried it and gave up or gave it no chance at all - they are > using XFCE or just not updating their distros or are trying out Ubuntu > instead or they are using the fallback for the moment now that they > have found out how to do it. They haven't emailed this list though. > > Is their objection that it is different? Office workers are generally vulnerable to change. The reason being that they don't copious amount of time to learn a new interface in the face of deadlines and what not. A transition plan is generally required for those.. so they get a chance to learn the new interface while at the same time be able to switch back in case there are issues with bad behaviour with important applications. My co-workers don't particularly like the new interface just from the presentation I did (they were my guinea pigs). But then these people are people who use fvwm2 over VNC on windows laptops or desktops. sri
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