Re: GNOME3 Ugh! What specifically didn't work.
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:16:57 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 22:43 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:41:46 -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>>
>> > Hi, all:
>> >
>> > What an appalling piece of crap is GNOME3!
>
> Full ACK!
>
>> I just did an innocent routine upgrade, and an eminently usable gnome 2
>> turned into a mess. Instead of writing my novel, I spent the rest of
>> the evening trying to figure out how to use it, and gave up.
>
> Always backup your Linux and never do an upgrade, if you're working on a
> project!
Except I'm always in the middle of two projects.
And, now thta I think of it, I do havve a backed-up Linux system --
there's also a partition on my machine that runs stable. But I refuse to
go back to OpenOffice.
>
> Never change a winning team!
Well, I've usually found Debian testing to be a winning team. I have
changed players -- I've moved to XFCE. Icewm didn't seem to have any way
to suspend or hibernate.
-- hendrik
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