Is anyone actually enjoying Gnome3?

[DBelton]

I have found LXDE, XFCE and e16 all to be a better environment for productivity than Gnome 3 shell is. I still haven't chosen a course of action to take, hoping that Gnome would improve, but it is looking more and more like I will be switching to something else besides Gnome.

I still haven't given cinnamon a try yet, but from what I have seen on here, it has a lot of potential.

[StephenH]

Originally Posted by l2ulinux

Just think if you had not used Gnome before then you would not know the difference in Gnome 3. Gnome did the biggest change I have seen, it no longer looks like windows are a remake of it.

Most started using Linus for a new, cheaper, programal are free OS. But wanted it to look like are work like windows are Mac OS.

I to did not like Gnome 3 at first but when I started to think about it we are now using a OS that is not a copy of the others.

It would be one thing if it were fast, but it slows my machines down worse than any version of Windows ever did. My main system isn't slow (Phenom X4 9850) but with Gnome Shell, it works as slow as my old laptop running a single-core Athlon XP processor. OTOH, with XFCE, it flies.

I still think the idea of programming a DE in Javascript and CSS is just wrong. The performance penalty is just too high. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Shell). I used to think that only Windows slowed fast hardware down so one would have to upgrade to faster hardware to get acceptable performance. Gnome Shell has surpassed Windows in that aspect unfortunately.

If it were not for the performance penalty, I would not mind Gnome Shell so much. It is quite attractive once one has tweaked it some. However, my computers are for getting things done, not for viewing eye-candy.

[Evil_Bert]

I'm loving Scientific Linux 6 (with Gnome 2.x). I knew it was good beforehand, but wow, it boots fast! Slick as a whistle. And everything is exactly where I want and expect it to be.

[Margrad]

This gets me back to the time I first tried Linux... It was Ubuntu 6.something I liked it but I felt like it was missing something so I tried another ditros and settled with Fedora Core 6! It felt great! Everything worked properly! And so I used Fedora from that time forward. I was so excited to know Fedora would have Gnome3 and so I tried it the day Fedora 14 or 15 came(can't remember which was)... it was HORRIBLE! I haven't felt such a great disappointment for a LONG time! And so I gave up and re-installed Fedora 13 and used it until a few days ago. Now I installed Fedora 16 (which gave me a huge headache by the way...) but changed from GNOME3 to LXDE... I hardly could hate GNOME3 anymore... and I'm very disappointed with the Fedora team in general and the anaconda responsible in particular.

[Apostate]

I'm starting to like gnome-shell but some of the default settings are baffling.

For instance after you log in there is a large blank desktop with which you can do precisely nothing - and also a long bar at the top with very little on it that is useful.

You really should be able to do more with it without having to delve into editing text and installing extentions. In many ways it reminds me of Windows 3.1 and it's Program Manager.

[deanej]

Backwards is the new forwards is computer development. At least it's not like Windows 8, which looks like it was inspired by Windows 2.0.

[JohnVV]

up until last night and today
I upgraded and now have gnome 3 ( opensuse and not fedora but same difference )

i was assuming that it was the "same" type of thing as kde3 to kde4
just something " new"

but NO
i am going to have to "learn to like" ( or not hate KDE )
-or a hack of a quote --
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "kde or Gnome3 " ( thing that goes boom)

gnome3 is NOT staying for LONG on this machine

it is a piece of " bleep" (yes a #2 )

I guess it is time to look and "Enlightment" e17 again
i thing it was 16 or 15 the last time i built it

[Dan]

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linu...general/399907

su
rpm -Uvh  http://repo.fedora.md/fmd/fedora/fedoramd-release-16.rpm
yum install enlightenment exchange

Although ... if you'd be willing to do a walk-through on how to build it ... methinks several of us would be quite grateful.

[DBelton]

Thanks for that link, Dan. They have the F17 repos up as well, and I just grabbed it and installed e17 here. I had e16 installed, but haven't installed e17 since I haven't had time to hunt around and build it myself.

Time to play around with it and see what I can break

[Dan]

Well ... when you get it properly broken, there's a class act tutorial/documentation on E17 over at Bodhi Linux site which will no doubt help you pick up the pieces. But remember ...

... Only a craven coward reads the instructions ... first. <....>

[DBelton]

instructions??

We don't neeeeed noooo steeeenkin instructions!

[JohnVV]

instructions??

just see what the compiler errors at and install it

but . for a DE instructions ARE a good idea

[nealzimm]

I don't know that I would say I like it, at least no more or less than any other os that I have used (except maybe OS/2). While I am impressed by WOW!! graphics, they are not essential. Gnome 3 has some features that make my life easier to the point where I would not go back to Gnome (2?).

Later.

[PiElle]

It's getting better ...

[jpollard]

Its just getting more bloated, and slow.

I have no problem with the underlying library - just the way the overall use of multiple copies of interpreters bloats everything. The more interpreter - the slower things get. Each seems to have two interpreters, one for CSS and another for javascript, where most of the work gets defined.