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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, KDE, etc by postmortem · · Score: 0, Troll

    All these window managers are inferior to Windows. Even after copying each Windows release, they are still behind Windows 95 in usability. Hell, they are getting worse. It is now a punishment to me to use Gnome 2.1x.

    For example, you cannot change location in Nautilus without using magic keyboard shortcut such as Ctrl + L. But you can see location just fine, just you can't change it.

    Only chance for good Linux desktop is if Google decides to make some professional window manager like they did on Android.

    I appreciate work that GNOME/KDE teams are putting out for pro bone, but after so many releases that don't address basic usability issue, I cannot but wonder if they are going in wrong direction.