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you want gnome 2, use centos. rhel 7 is gonna come out in 2013, by then gnome 3 may not blow chunks anymore.
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I was pissed when Ubuntu dropped Gnome 2 in favor of some half-baked unity desktop.
They are trying to be imitate apple's desktop from the looks of the window manager.. and it's worse than OSX.
I understood and hated the gnome developers taking features away. But what Ubuntu did was much worse.
They go and pull the rug out from under everyone and expect the users to learn this new flaky desktop environment that has less functionality and fewer options than Gnome had.
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I can honestly say boo to this. I've been running Gnome as a DE for as long as as I've used Linux, and I spazzed a bit when Ubuntu 12.04 came along. That is, before I figured out the fallback mode was there.
I intend to stick to the LTR here as its supposed to be supported for five years, which I assume means I won't be forced to change my entire workflow or learn a new desktop environment. And that's what this is really all about. Taking an Apple-like "here, this is the new, better way to do things and you're going to start doing it now" methodology rubs people the wrong way. There is a reason people want to stick with classic Gnome. And all else notwithstanding, "I prefer GNOME" is all the reason anyone needs.
Personally, I'd love to be able to install GNOME 2.X as a DE if I could. But somebody somewhere decided that I shouldn't be able to do that anymore. Enter MATE. And Cinnamon. And a few other similar projects, I'm sure.
So please, don't lock out the way your users like to do their work. Give us what we want, not what you want us to want.
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Originally posted by BO$$ View PostDidn't I tell you they'll try to fuck us? Gnome fallback was the only usable gnome desktop after the gnome 3 shit. Now they want to take it away from us!!! Unity is shit I don't even consider using it. KDE too bloated and slow. Right now I use xfce but I feel my options are getting artificially reduced. Assholes....Idiots....
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I don't really find KDE to be all that bad as long as you disable or remove unneeded things like Neposuk (err, Nepomuk). It does take longer to start than other DEs, but I think that is worth it to have better configurability and usability.
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Originally posted by BO$$ View PostDidn't I tell you they'll try to fuck us? Gnome fallback was the only usable gnome desktop after the gnome 3 shit. Now they want to take it away from us!!! Unity is shit I don't even consider using it. KDE too bloated and slow. Right now I use xfce but I feel my options are getting artificially reduced. Assholes....Idiots....
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Ubuntu and gnome... two systems both known for doing STUPID CRAP.
DO NOT drop fallback mode, AT LEAST until all GPU's on ALL systems actually are able to run the GL-junk.
Just because it CAN run on llvmpipe does NOT mean that it SHOULD. llvmpipe is SEVERE and UNWARRANTED overhead on systems that are already barely able to keep up.
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Ubuntu To Consider Ridding GNOME Fallback Code
Phoronix: Ubuntu To Consider Ridding GNOME Fallback Code
Later this month in Copenhagen at the developer summit for Ubuntu 13.04, getting rid of the GNOME fallback code is a likely discussion item...
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