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[Jacob Peddicord <jpeddicord@xxxxxxxxxx>]

My thoughts exactly. Remember KDE 4? There's still a thriving
community around it, even after the months of complaints from various
users and figureheads.

Change is happening, and if you don't like it, you don't have to
accept it -- just pick another desktop environment/window
manager/browser/whatever. You have the freedom to choose what you want
to use.

Personally, I use Unity on the desktop and love it, but on my netbook
I've got LXDE (Lubuntu) just because I like it more on my netbook.
I've got no arguments to convince anyone to use either of those
systems, I just know that they work well for me.

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Evan Wilson <evanjameswilson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> IMHO:
>
> People hang onto their old ratty security blankets.  I've been using GNOME 3
> since Fedora 15 released on my work computer and I've fallen in love.  The
> architecture hasn't changed significantly, and it's actually much more
> keyboard friendly.  While more minimal in terms of the point and click
> interface, they've hung onto all the old backend flexibility.  I've found
> that it appeals more to the low level mentality, which kind of eschews
> choice of desktop environment for the gears that keep it moving anyways.  I
> don't expect the hullabaloo to last, especially in the Torvalds crowd.
>
> I think the issue people have is the interface change.  Resist change.  The
> power of linux isn't in the graphical shell and there's no reason to shy
> from a very thoroughly developed, clean, and inevitably pervasive solution
> regardless of all the well thought out but functionally skin-deep changes
> it's made.  This is what appeals to "users", which I'm quite comfortable
> labeling myself as such.  Fluxbox will always be the outsider, the
> alternative.  It exists to be faster and smaller than the big ones (which
> certainly has its place), but it doesn't have the functionality to compete
> with the bigger alternatives.  Weather the storm, and the more cantakerous
> members of the community will move onto the next target and quietly slip
> into line.  And it'll definitely help wooing the masses from the OTHER GUYS
> to have something that looks modern and "cool".  And hey, it's wonderful on
> the inside too.
>
> (Unity's pretty sweet too).

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