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Linux Mint Will Adopt Gnome 3

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-2-is-an-option dept.

sfcrazy points to news, posted in the current blog post about Linux mint statistics, that the Linux Mint team "has thus decided that in the next version of Linux Mint 12, they will continue to support Gnome 2, but will also introduce Gnome 3." Related news from an anonymous reader:"Contributors in the GNOME community have started a GNOME desktop user survey. The GNOME Foundation wouldn't endorse any survey, but the community has put together a 23-question desktop survey. Regardless if you use GNOME, they encourage all Linux users to participate."

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  1. Re:GNOME Survey by Toonol · · Score: 4, Insightful

    However, in Win8 you can just clickthrough to the full, standard windows desktop, so at least they haven't removed the option. Gnome seems to eagerly remove options.

  2. Re:Mint- How many slashdotters out here use it? by Dracos · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I use Mint KDE because GNOME is

    • Chasing a userbase that doesn't exist (computer illiterates not on Windows), thereby making actual users suffer
    • Infecting itself with a disease called Mono

    I like Mint. It's easy to install and I can do what I want to the desktop. As long as there is a KDE version of Mint I'll keep using it. If there isn't, I'll go looking for another distro where KDE is used (it won't be Kubuntu).

    I used to be a GNOME user back in my RedHat/Gentoo days, along With E.16. E.17 is teh seksi, but I haven't tried it yet.

  3. Re:Oh noes! They changed Facebook...er Gnome! by 0123456 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The hatred for all things new in the FLOSS community never ceases to surprise me.

    We don't hate it because it's new, we hate it because it's crap.