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Tom's Hardware Tests and Reviews Fedora 16 and Gnome 3

Posted by timothy on from the love-it-or-hate-it dept.

New submitter LordDCLXVI writes with a review at Tom's Hardware that starts out with some loaded questions about GNOME 3, as included in the newest version of Red Hat's Fedora: "While most other distros are passing up or postponing GNOME Shell, Fedora is full steam ahead. Does Red Hat know something the rest of us don't? Or is GNOME 3 really as bad as everyone says?" Writes LordDCLVXI: "This massive article amounts to a full-blown guide to Fedora 16 'Verne' and complete dissection of GNOME Shell. It begins with an installation guide, with instructions for enabling third-party repos, proprietary graphics drivers, Wi-Fi, Flash, Java, multimedia codecs, and 32-bit libs. Next up is a GNOME Shell tear-down, including customization options and methods to 'fix' the Shell or mimic GNOME 2. Finally, Fedora is benchmarked against Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7. [While the author] adds to the voices criticizing GNOME Shell, he also points out that the extensions can empower distributors to create unique, yet compatible layouts. One of the most fair and constructive critiques of GNOME 3 — definitely worth the read, and even makes GNOME 3 worth a second look."

3 of 101 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I went with XFCE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I use a mix of XFCE and OpenBox. OpenBox and KDE are apparently one of very few desktops these days that can handle 4+ monitors correctly. Even that stock XFCE window manager doesn't work correctly. What a shame.

    GNOME 3 can't do it at all. If I load it on my 4 monitor setup (two twinview screens) it gets all screwed up with only half the screen rendering and the rendering is done on the opposite monitors from where the actual mouse clicks are detected. It's seriously broken.

    10 years ago this setup worked perfectly. It's sad to see so much software getting worse with age.

  2. Not stable enough by fluffythedestroyer · · Score: 5, Informative
    here is a list of things on gnome in Gentoo before they can make it stable and unmask it.

    http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GNOME/GNOME3_Stable

    In other words, its not stable enough on Gentoo

  3. Re:Divisiveness for Fun and Profit by ifiwereasculptor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And it's sad that most /.ters won't read the review, because it is truly very complete. At one point you read

    Another side-effect presents itself after a few weeks of regular use.

    or

    I needed to open it on the Dell Inspiron Mini 10v to access my DropBox account [...] Back on my desktop, KeePassX reported that my password database was locked

    and think "a review that actually tried to use the fucking thing for weeks intead of just installing, looking around for a few minutes and writing about it? What the hell is happening to tech journalism?". Gnome Shell didn't, but Tom's Hardware scored a few points with me today.