What Linux Users Are Saying About GNOME In 2012 (Part 1)

[ворот93]

GNOME Shell is utter piece of crap. Never understood what motivated GNOME devs to break good ol' desktop.

Have since switched to KDE 4 and not looking back

[Roberto Dirksen]

They're doing this all the time and that's why it sucks badly.

They do it all the time because they know they're good, and they know the whiners are mouth-breathing morons.

If you don't like Gnome 3, you're most likely doing something stupid. Instead of getting frustrated, try thinking about the best way to accomplish your task. You'll find that the way you used to do things in Windows and Gnome 2 were not that efficient after all.

I'm loving Arch Linux right now, but I'm looking forward to Gnome OS. These guys are really good.

[Delgarde]

Agreed. Many comments can be summed up as either "I love Windoze-like interfaces, don't innovate, keep Gnome 2", or "nyah nyah, XXX is a better desktop". And then the inevitable morons ("let it die", "kill yourselves", etc etc.)

Little wonder the Gnome devs pay little attention to Phoronix surveys, don't you think? It's entirely possible that there's some intelligent feedback mixed in there, but you'd have to filter through a lot of noise to find it...

And we (Gnome 3 users) have that.

Then be happy, but most of the Linux users don't like it.

[kigurai]

You'er missing the point. People just want usable desktop, that's all. Stupidity has nothing to innovation in case you didn't know.

And we (Gnome 3 users) have that.

Agreed. Many comments can be summed up as either "I love Windoze-like interfaces, don't innovate, keep Gnome 2", or "nyah nyah, XXX is a better desktop". And then the inevitable morons ("let it die", "kill yourselves", etc etc.)

You'er missing the point. People just want usable desktop, that's all. Stupidity has nothing to innovation in case you didn't know.

I'm using Arch Linux with Gnome 3.6 and I love it. The people who dislike it are too stupid to understand how to use it correctly. I really hope the Gnome developers ignore the whiners.

They're doing this all the time and that's why it sucks badly.

[StephanG]

I think many of you are missing the point.

The Gnome devs, work on Gnome, because it is near to their heart. For reasons, that are they may or may not be able to articulate. But, regardless, that is not up for discussion. They work on Gnome because they want to. Period.

The survey, is only to help them choose where/how to spend their limited man-hours. And, I dare say, that should be the ONLY thing a survey helps them to do. Unfortunately, the whole thing seemed to have gone sour very quickly.

I think it would have been far more productive to make a survey that asks:

"On a scale of 1 to 10, how strong do you feel Gnome's ... is?"

A - Security
B - Stability
C - Et cetera

Do you think we should focus on:

A - New features
B - Cross Desktop Compatibility
C - Et cetera

That way, it would have been MUCH easier to see exactly, which components gnome suers really want the devs to work on. And, it would have painted a much better picture to the Gnome devs of how well their users think their doing.

But, things went awry by inviting anything to be said. There should be some boundaries.

[F i L]

I don't understand why so many people are upset. I use Gnome-Shell 3.6 on Arch Linux and I love this DE. It's fast, elegant, and it encourages a productive multi-workspace workflow (and makes that actually usable). It has it's problems, sure, for instance it should really have the functionality of Dash-to-Dock built in by default, but for the most part it's great.

I also don't see why everyone wants a damn Minimize/Maximize button... this is the point of multiple workspaces. It takes much longer to click a little minimize button than it does to switch a workspace. And for Maximize.. just double click or drag to the top.. it's not hard. I love how the windows only have a Close box, the concept is so much simpler than other DE's it's a breath of fresh air.

It seems like most of the haters just want Gnome2 back... why not simply use Mate or XFCE or LXDE or Cinnamon?

The only DE that looks comparable to Gnome-Shell, IMO, is Gala (Pantheon)... and only then if it gives Plant the option to be a side-bar (auto-hiding horizontal bars on vertically-stacked multi-monitor setups don't work so hot). Cinnamon is also good looking, but I like Window7-style taskbar icons instead of WindowsXP-style ones.. plus it need side-bar taskbar functionality.

[Roberto Dirksen]

My biggest problem with Gnome 3 is not Gnome Shell, which I find better than Unity (even tough I'd wish I had not to install extensions to make it work).

What annoys me is that devs think that removing features is a feature, which is not, ...

No, they think removing useless features is an improvement, which it is. Gnome 3 is a lot better than Gnome 2. It's easily the best Linux DE.