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I'm not many people but I did switch for Gnome 3. I miss APT but now I know yum so it's not a massive loss. I've also switched my family, who were using ubuntu
by hactually 15y ago
I'm not many people but I did switch for Gnome 3. I miss APT but now I know yum so it's not a massive loss.
I've also switched my family, who were using ubuntu, over as well - mainly as none of them got on well with Unity and that if I've got to support something - it may as well be something I'm using!
- greatquux 15y agoBut why couldn't you just do apt-get install gnome-shell?
- hactually 15y agoIf something's the default it tends to get more focus and polish. I probably could've done it that way, but at the time of the move Gnome 3 wasn't in the repos, nor was GTK3 and I don't see the point in swimming against the flow.
- thristian 15y agoGNOME 3 is still absent from the 11.04 repositories (although GTK3 was there from day 1). However, the Ubuntu GNOME maintainers have an officially-unofficial GNOME 3 PPA, which I'm using right now and am very happy with. I greatly admire Fedora's tradition of sticking close to whatever upstream releases, but I don't think I could leave behind the breadth of Ubuntu/Debian's package archive, or the ability to do in-place version upgrades.
- hactually 15y agoThe upgrade path of Fedora is a bit clunky. It's basically: rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/A82BA4B7.txt https://fedoraproject.org/static/A82BA4B7.txt yum update yum yum clean all yum --releasever=16 --disableplugin=presto distro-sync I am pretty sure I upgraded 15->16 in place using a liveCD/install CD which was cool.