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Er, on the other hand, many people actually like gnome 3 (myself included), but it's typically the people who don't like something that are the most noticeable,
by snogglethorpe 14y ago
Er, on the other hand, many people actually like gnome 3 (myself included), but it's typically the people who don't like something that are the most noticeable, because they complain a lot.
I.e. "I saw lots of complaints on HN" is not a particularly good measure of anything...
- Nursie 14y agoBut there are a lot of complaints in a lot of different places. I'm sure complainers are probably over-represented in public fora, but not to the extent you seem to think.
- PommeDeTerre 14y agoI don't doubt that some people like GNOME 3. I'm just not convinced that, given all of the feedback that I've seen, that this is a very large group of people. I would not be at all surprised if the number of people who like GNOME 3 is much smaller than the number of people who have, silently or otherwise, switched to Xfce, KDE, or some other environment. Like Nursie mentioned in another comment, the negative sentiment toward GNOME 3 isn't just present here. It arises essentially wherever GNOME 3 is discussed. Having followed many open source projects for many years, I've never seen anywhere near this level of outright hatred on such a scale. Yes, disagreement is common, but when it comes to GNOME 3 it's far beyond that.