Re: [tlug] SUSE wipeout! (Add /home partition in Ubuntu)

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:15:30PM +0200, Christian Horn wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 01:06:32PM -0700, s smith wrote:
> >
> > I have heard that Ubuntu is moving away from GNOME because of some
> > kind of difference between Mr. Shuttleworth and the GNOME developers
> > but can't seem to find anything on it on-line.  Does anyone know
> > what's actually going on?
> 
> Not for sure, yet my theory is that the Ubuntu folks did think
> gnome3 to be to different to get accepted - can not really comment
> if unity is more gnome2 style, have not tried it yet.

As an openbox user, who has played with both, Unity seems more
Gnome3-ish to me than Gnome2-ish.  My own feeling, again as someone who
merely dabbled with Gnome3 and Unity was that there was little
difference, at least in default appearance.


> If you dislike unity it could be a good idea to try out gnome3
> bevore stepping back to gnome2 or sidewards to windowmanagers like
> xfce.
> 
> Hey, at least in our Linux world we have still movement and also
> big steps are done - instead of companys deciding on what is good
> for all of their users..

To a point, anyway.  Unfortunately, it gets to the point where the
developers make certain decisions, and it gets harder to work around
them.  

Not that these decisions are necessarily bad, (though many times it
could be argued that they're more to yald-twiffle-twa-mow as Josh
wrote), just me no like.  

I would say, Boy, that's stupid, the Windows/Apple users won't change,
and they're just driving away the users that they had, but it seems,
judging from Ubuntu's success, that in some cases, I would be wrong, and
that _I_ was the stupid one.  Granted, it's relatively few, but they do
seem to come. 



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