Who here uses Gnome 3

Lino

Lino

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Many years ago I used to use KDE (we talking about KDE3x days) then when KDE 4 came out (oh god :mad: ) I moved onto Gnome 2. Oh what lovely years and fond memories I had with it.

Then I went to Gnome 3 and almost through up as it lacked a lot of features. Recently I moved onto MATE and quite liked it. However in many ways I started to find it old and clashed with Compiz quite badly.

So I decided what the hell and tried Gnome 3.4 and I must admit, I am quite impressed with it!
 
I'd rather use Windows. Gnome, and to a lesser extent recent KDE, are two great examples of too many cooks spoiling the broth.

I used a Linux desktop (mostly KDE) almost exclusively since the days when you *had* to compile your own kernel, and I honestly thought using Linux as my desktop would get easier as time when on. And for a decade or so it did. But for the last three years it's gotten in my way more and more, and things that was easily done before became a drag.
 
I had some bad experience with Gnome 3, I'm running Lubuntu now on Virtual Box and it seems to be very stable.
 
I'm using Mint13 quite allot and really like it, I dare say I'm starting to prefer it to windows.
 
I've been running Gnome 3 on Fedora since F15 and really thought I might ditch Gnome 2 on F14 as my dev platform when Fedora 17 was released last month.

I'm sorry to report I haven't made the move yet. Everything I use works - sort of, but I have problems with the revamped gedit, remmina still doesn't support mouse wheel scroll or like the English (South Africa) language setting when trying to launch plus workspaces "hang" for no good reason (also seems to be language setting related).
The flash-plugin on Firefox 12/13 and Chrome is "wonky" on F17 but is OK on F14 (myBB speedtest works but speedtest.net doesn't). I don't have F16 set up on any of my systems any longer but I don't recall any problems with flash when I did.

I think Linus sums it up nicely here:
https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/UkoAaLDpF4i

I'll be sticking with Fedora 14 on my dev systems for the time being (using the remi collet repo for updates) and using F17 for "fun" - casual browsing, downloading etc.

BTW - changing distros is not a option before anyone suggests it, whilst it may not meet my requirements yet I'll grin and bear it until the Gnome Munchkins get their act together (Gnome 3 is still better than Unity) :D
 
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I've settled on XFCE 4.10

Unity sucks, Gnome3 is slightly better, KDE4 and then XFCE from bad to worse.

These days I stick to XFCE, LXDE & Openbox.
 
ponder said:
I've settled on XFCE 4.10

Unity sucks, Gnome3 is slightly better, KDE4 and then XFCE from bad to worse.

These days I stick to XFCE, LXDE & Openbox.
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I am also sticking with XFCE at the moment. Your ranking is correct.
 
Thanks for the comments guys; currently using Gnome 3 MINT 13 on my Desktop machine. On my MINT Debian laptop might use Cinnamon or MATE. Gnome 3 will be too resource intensive
 
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