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by knewter 5045 days ago
Every linux user I know (except maybe two) runs gnome3/gnome-shell and loves it. One of those two run gnome3 with unity. So only one user I know isn't running gnome - he runs kde. He plans to try out gnome for a month after watching me with it.

I love where they're going with gnome3. I understand the frustration people have, because there are some places where it superficially feels like 2 steps forward, 2 steps back. However, if you use it you can feel how good the platform decisions seem to have been, and if you watch it improve with each point release you really get a feel that these guys are enjoying providing top notch Free Software again (gnome2 was stagnant). Also, if you want to use gnome2....just freaking do so.
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mindcrime 5045 days ago
I have yet to meet anybody IRL who actually likes Gnome3. I see a few posters on the 'net from time to time who claim to like it, but that's it.

OTOH, I see a lot of people saying they've switch to Mate, or Cinammon, or KDE, or XFCE, etc. Personally, I've switched to KDE and couldn't be happier. Good riddance to Gnome, as far as I'm concerned.

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jlgreco 5045 days ago
The only person I know that uses gnome3 and claims to sort of like it (mind, he still complains about it all the time) reminds me of myself four or five years ago when I was trying to convince myself that I still liked KDE, I liked where 4.x was going, and was full of all sorts of excuses for it. And don't think I am exaggerating the extent of my own distortion; I was saying these things about KDE 4.0.

So every time somebody responds to criticism of what GNOME has become with "Well it has all been going swimmingly for me. The few wrinkles don't bother me!", I can't help but see myself, lying to myself.

While I haven't tried KDE in years, I'm sure the experience has dramatically improved and it is now a viable DE choice. Hopefully, in four or five years GNOME will be the same way. But really, there can be no defending of the current state of GNOME, nor the state of the early 4.x releases.

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vacri 5045 days ago
We must have different linux-using friends, then. Those I know that use Gnome3 don't particularly like it, but use it because it's just there (including me). Others detest it and use kde, mate, or xfce (with one guy on a heavily customised fvwm).
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