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[raymac46]

Don't know if this was mentioned before but here is a lengthy but interesting article:

http://www.tomshardw...eview,3155.html

[saturnian]

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Using GNOME Shell is an exercise in supreme frustration. After spending the first month with this interface, I wanted to crawl into a corner and die [...] The second month we discovered shell extensions. GNOME 3 not only became something we could use, but it became something that we wanted to use [...] Regardless of the potential, if you “upgrade” to GNOME 3 you will almost certainly lose any semblance of work flow [...] Normal folks should definitely skip this one [...] distributors shouldn't give up on GNOME 3 simply because of GNOME Shell's default configuration.

Whatever. In Fedora 16, I use GNOME Shell with only two extensions -- Alternative Status Menu and Quit Button. I think it's great, and I've been using it since Fedora 16 was released. Loss of "work flow?" I just laugh at that.

As always, YMMV.

[raymac46]

He did a lot of complaining but then he showed how to fix most of the issues.

[saturnian]

People can have such different reactions to any given thing. I took to GNOME Shell almost right away; other people will never take to it.

I spend a lot of time on the job helping people to use a couple of different GUIs. What's intuitive to one person will be completely non-intuitive to the next. Some will hate it, some will love it. Some start out hating it, then you'll see a light come on and they're saying, "Oh! This is great... thanks!"

At work, I'm quite often reminded of the discussions about desktop environments, etc., here in the Linux world, because I hear so many of the same types of comments and see so many of the same types of reactions. Some people adapt very easily to different things, and spend more time looking at what they can do instead of focusing on what they can't do. Some people are very excited to learn to use a new interface; others approach it with dread, or refuse to learn to use it at all. Seems to be the same situation with Linux desktops.

[raymac46]

I go back a long way with this. I remember the angst in the lab moving from DOS to Windows 3.11 and then from 3.11 to NT4. I retired before we had to do it again to XP or probably Windows 7 by now.