My thoughts exactly. Remember KDE 4? There's still a thriving community around it, even after the months of complaints from various users and figureheads.
Change is happening, and if you don't like it, you don't have to accept it -- just pick another desktop environment/window manager/browser/whatever. You have the freedom to choose what you want to use. Personally, I use Unity on the desktop and love it, but on my netbook I've got LXDE (Lubuntu) just because I like it more on my netbook. I've got no arguments to convince anyone to use either of those systems, I just know that they work well for me. On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Evan Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > IMHO: > > People hang onto their old ratty security blankets. I've been using GNOME 3 > since Fedora 15 released on my work computer and I've fallen in love. The > architecture hasn't changed significantly, and it's actually much more > keyboard friendly. While more minimal in terms of the point and click > interface, they've hung onto all the old backend flexibility. I've found > that it appeals more to the low level mentality, which kind of eschews > choice of desktop environment for the gears that keep it moving anyways. I > don't expect the hullabaloo to last, especially in the Torvalds crowd. > > I think the issue people have is the interface change. Resist change. The > power of linux isn't in the graphical shell and there's no reason to shy > from a very thoroughly developed, clean, and inevitably pervasive solution > regardless of all the well thought out but functionally skin-deep changes > it's made. This is what appeals to "users", which I'm quite comfortable > labeling myself as such. Fluxbox will always be the outsider, the > alternative. It exists to be faster and smaller than the big ones (which > certainly has its place), but it doesn't have the functionality to compete > with the bigger alternatives. Weather the storm, and the more cantakerous > members of the community will move onto the next target and quietly slip > into line. And it'll definitely help wooing the masses from the OTHER GUYS > to have something that looks modern and "cool". And hey, it's wonderful on > the inside too. > > (Unity's pretty sweet too). -- Jacob Peddicord http://jacob.peddicord.net/ https://launchpad.net/~jpeddicord _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
