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[Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jacob Peddicord wrote:

> 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.

The important thing is that innovation is happening!  GNOME 3 is
targeted toward tablets, so it isn't surprising that it doesn't work
as well (for some people) for existing computing tasks.  Anyway,
options are simply good.  One person's particular preferences aren't
really that significant; although in this case, they may make the
GNOME people try harder to fix the usability problems they've now
created, which in the end is a very good thing.

As an aside, I think a GNOME 2 fork would actually be interesting.
Keep the competition alive.

Gilbert