I love gnome 3 and gnome shell. I've been using the 3.2 beta on both my laptops and I'm normally a kde user.
Yes it lacks customisations but there's actually very little I want to change. The notification system could be refined a little and I don't like the pop up system tray at all (I'd like to fix it so its only visible when on the activities overview) but other than that gnome-shell does the job I want, in an elegant, fast and as hassle free way.
The most important things for a gui to do is to allow me to find and open apps fast, and to switch between, and view comfortably the apps that are open. Gnome-shell does this.
With KDE I'd launch apps by hitting 'ctrl+f1' to open menu then begin typing to bring up the app and hit 'enter' to lunch it. Its almost the same in gnome-shell except I hit the super key. Unitys the same but there's other issues I have with unity that prevents me currently favouring it. I don't miss the old style gnome menu, I don't miss the minimize button and I don't miss kde widgets..... well folder view would be nice.
Yes it lacks customisations but there's actually very little I want to change. The notification system could be refined a little and I don't like the pop up system tray at all (I'd like to fix it so its only visible when on the activities overview) but other than that gnome-shell does the job I want, in an elegant, fast and as hassle free way.
The most important things for a gui to do is to allow me to find and open apps fast, and to switch between, and view comfortably the apps that are open. Gnome-shell does this.
With KDE I'd launch apps by hitting 'ctrl+f1' to open menu then begin typing to bring up the app and hit 'enter' to lunch it. Its almost the same in gnome-shell except I hit the super key. Unitys the same but there's other issues I have with unity that prevents me currently favouring it. I don't miss the old style gnome menu, I don't miss the minimize button and I don't miss kde widgets..... well folder view would be nice.
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