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GNOME Ignoring its Own Users?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the get-the-data dept.

Jonathan writes "Some editorials were posted on the web the last few days about GNOME and its apparent lack of interest on user feedback, especially when GNOME pitches itself to follow a 'users first philosophy' in their press releases. OSNews started with an editorial about market research or lack thereof, Expert-Zone posted another one on how OSS must learn to take responsibility on its great success."

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  1. GNOME is bloated by erroneus · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Well, Okay, I'll requalify that statement with "GNOME's Nautilus is bloated." I know I am not the only one with this problem and it hasn't been addressed since people started saying it. Instead, over the months and years, it seems to have gotten worse. The only way to restore boot-fresh performance is to "killall nautilus" and let it start again.

    What I'd like to see is a file manager that is more like (and I hate to say this) Microsoft's Explorer. It's faster and doesn't seem to suffer from what I believe to be memory leaks. (Nautilus over time seems to eat up memory until you kill it.) I do tweak Nautilus to turn off all or as many frills as possible but that only extends life a little longer.

    And if it's helpful to know, I use FC3 and keep it as stock and up-to-date as possible.

    Are there any drop-in-replacements for Nautilus that solves my issues?