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Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-else-don't-you-like? dept.

kai_hiwatari writes "In Google+, Torvalds criticized the direction that GNOME has taken with GNOME 3. He called GNOME 3 an 'unholy mess' and said that the user experience is unacceptable, adding that because of GNOME 3, he has ditched GNOME for Xfce. He said that Xfce is a step down from GNOME 2 — but a huge step up from GNOME 3."

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  1. GNOME shell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe Linus somehow didn't install GNOME shell along with it? Other than a few minor issues, which will be fixed with plugins soon enough, I've been rather happy with GNOME 3.

  2. Re:Change for the sake of change? by demachina · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If your read the thread he said the current KDE is a total mess too since they did the same thing GNOME did when they did KDE 4.x. That's when I stopped using KDE and pretty much stopped using Linux as a desktop. I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 and GNOME 2.x on the occassions I still use desktop Linux.

    I think its pretty much been established at this point the open source model totally doesn't work for developing a coherent desktop. A bunch of geeks just can't seem to do it, they simply don't grasp sane UI conventions, and are drunk on trying to do things new and different just so they can tell themselves they are being innovative, and are instead making UI that is completely unusable.

    Desktops are hard, they require a lot of overarching design, a lot of in depth UI expertise, and a LOT of QA and usability testing. Its a bunch of things open source apparently just doesn't do well.

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    @de_machina