Re: [MBZ] OT: Gnome 3 and Linux Desktop Managers

2017-02-20 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
You can (and are required to to get reasonably good performance) in winders. You can in Mac OS or OSX (if you like) but you seldom need to for normal stuff. It is Unix underneath. fmiser via Mercedes February 20, 2017 at 11:23 PM Curley wrote: All reasons

Re: [MBZ] OT: Gnome 3 and Linux Desktop Managers

2017-02-20 Thread fmiser via Mercedes
Curley wrote: All reasons why I have not been comfortable moving to linux. Lots of monkeying around under the hood in a language I don't know, and have little interest in learning. In general, a user does not have to dig around under the hood. What makes Linux different is you _can_. __

Re: [MBZ] OT: Gnome 3 and Linux Desktop Managers

2017-02-20 Thread fmiser via Mercedes
Craig wrote: You may recall my abortive attempt last year to update to a new version of CentOS so I can run current versions of browsers. I just could not get Gnome 3 to work like Gnome 2 I have been using for years. Yeah. I have a very strong dislike for Gnome3. When it was introduced

Re: [MBZ] OT: Gnome 3 and Linux Desktop Managers

2017-02-19 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
...@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 6:48 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Gnome 3 and Linux Desktop Managers All reasons why I have not been comfortable moving to linux.  Lots of monkeying around under the hood in a language I don't know, and have little interest in learning.

Re: [MBZ] OT: Gnome 3 and Linux Desktop Managers

2017-02-18 Thread Ed Booher via Mercedes
Eh. Don't worry about learning how to monkey under the hood. As far as desktop is concerned, you don't *have* to. You just have to choose the distribution that runs easiest for you. Personally, as far as desktop *NIX is concerned, Elementary OS is maturing very fast. They are trying very hard to be

Re: [MBZ] OT: Gnome 3 and Linux Desktop Managers

2017-02-18 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
All reasons why I have not been comfortable moving to linux. Lots of monkeying around under the hood in a language I don't know, and have little interest in learning. Craig via Mercedes February 17, 2017 at 11:40 PM You may recall my abortive attempt last year t

Re: [MBZ] OT: Gnome 3 and Linux Desktop Managers

2017-02-18 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 16:24:58 -0600 Mountain Man via Mercedes wrote: > This sounds similar (sort of) to the situations in the linux running > here - Manjaro which is a fork? of ArchLinux? Doing stuff in linux > escapes me so my son does the fiddling. There seems to be some > controversy about in

Re: [MBZ] OT: Gnome 3 and Linux Desktop Managers

2017-02-18 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Craig wrote: > You may recall my abortive attempt last year to update to a new version > of CentOS... < SNIP> > When it was introduced in spring 2011, GNOME 3 abandoned the > traditional desktop design of GNOME 2 in favor of the new GNOME Shell. This sounds similar (sort of) to the situa

[MBZ] OT: Gnome 3 and Linux Desktop Managers

2017-02-17 Thread Craig via Mercedes
You may recall my abortive attempt last year to update to a new version of CentOS so I can run current versions of browsers. I just could not get Gnome 3 to work like Gnome 2 I have been using for years. I found some interesting comments about this situation at http://www.osnews.com/story/27160/W