I agree with that: GNOME 3 is full of this - even using several desktops is so simple and intuitive, that my 60+ year old Mom uses it: it's not a geeky thing, anymore...
Generally, concerning gnome3, it's nice for people who navigate with the keyboard.
Quite the contrary: users even switch windows by moving the cursor to the top-left edge of the screen (or clicking on "Activities", or issuing the super key on the keyboard) and clicking on the "window" (there's no visual clues in that? "Visual clues" are all over GNOME 3...) - never seen anyone using Alt-Tab (or Alt-[the key up "Tab"], for switching windows of the same app), besides myself...
She learns how to do things by the positions that things are at on the screen, and if they move, she needs to learn all over again.
She is learning the wrong way! (doesn't she want to barely understand what she's doing?)
... GNOME 3 is a very intuitive UI: my Mom, who never have used a computer before, and is 60+ years old, use a Desktop to do several things now (the Google and Wikipedia integrated in the dash is a killer feature for that kind of user - myself, never used it, but commonly see it been used...)
Fedora is the distro I use now in my friends Desktops, because of GNOME 3 - I used to install Ubuntu in that cases, but Unity thing made move on (I've used Linux Mint 12 after left Ubuntu, but it dropped GNOME 3 [that was the reason to me to choose that distro]) - Now I'm not thinking in moving back: it's far more simple to maintain these than Ubuntu (I live in Brazil: the presto pluguin for yum, that reduces greatly the download sizes of updates, was very welcome), and it has bleeding edge software
... it's my mantra:P
* from a happy user of GNOME 3, and using it to turn non-techies in to Linux World (up to now, some friends, 2 sisters, Mom and a brother)
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not to use daily, but to configure/fix simple things is...
Easiness to configure/use (no "geek" needed at all, everything must just work :P)
I agree with that: GNOME 3 is full of this - even using several desktops is so simple and intuitive, that my 60+ year old Mom uses it: it's not a geeky thing, anymore...
Quite the contrary: users even switch windows by moving the cursor to the top-left edge of the screen (or clicking on "Activities", or issuing the super key on the keyboard) and clicking on the "window" (there's no visual clues in that? "Visual clues" are all over GNOME 3...) - never seen anyone using Alt-Tab (or Alt-[the key up "Tab"], for switching windows of the same app), besides myself...
Quite the contrary: GNOME 3 is a very usable UI OOTB :P
ok, no problem... but it's ugly: seems that you are hidden
She is learning the wrong way! (doesn't she want to barely understand what she's doing?)
... GNOME 3 is a very intuitive UI: my Mom, who never have used a computer before, and is 60+ years old, use a Desktop to do several things now (the Google and Wikipedia integrated in the dash is a killer feature for that kind of user - myself, never used it, but commonly see it been used...)
Fast Internet connection here is a BigCity-only thing - using presto, 512kbps is enough for a yum update :P
nice catch/understanding...
Fedora is the distro I use now in my friends Desktops, because of GNOME 3 - I used to install Ubuntu in that cases, but Unity thing made move on (I've used Linux Mint 12 after left Ubuntu, but it dropped GNOME 3 [that was the reason to me to choose that distro]) - Now I'm not thinking in moving back: it's far more simple to maintain these than Ubuntu (I live in Brazil: the presto pluguin for yum, that reduces greatly the download sizes of updates, was very welcome), and it has bleeding edge software
* why you post as AC?
and posting as AC why?
I strongly agree with that (not the wallpaper I usually change anymore...)
So true: hardware requirements of any mainstream linux distro is way more "comfortable" than of Windows Vista/7 :P
mod parent up!
AC? Why?
mod parent up (I wish I had mod points now...)
What non-adoption? By geeks?
It's the default DE on Fedora (and not on Ubuntu because of Unity)...
but I think Gnome 3 is better than Unity, by a large margin
mod parent up
... it's my mantra :P
* from a happy user of GNOME 3, and using it to turn non-techies in to Linux World (up to now, some friends, 2 sisters, Mom and a brother)
I understand the rant: gonomee 2 was for techies-only, GNOME 3 not...
For non-techies, the user friendliness of GNOME 3 is the greatest that I've ever seen!
what a memory! 4,296 characters!
twitter is far more than a "read-only" RSS: RT, Reply/DM - and it is easy to use for non-techies...