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I was actually a fan of Gnome Shell until I went to the LinuxCon 2011 and started talking to the devs. It seems to me that they are trying to turn Gnome into so

by foenix 14y ago

I was actually a fan of Gnome Shell until I went to the LinuxCon 2011 and started talking to the devs. It seems to me that they are trying to turn Gnome into something meant for beginning users while trying to train them with "good" habits. Example: shutdown can only be achieved by holding alt (without gnome-tweak). Considering I have limited power when I'm mobile, I usually shutdown (bootup time is negligible compared to standby power-loss on my netbook). That being said, I've switched to Cinnamon and haven't looked back: http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/ http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/

vacri 14y ago
'good habits' apparently don't extend to having a quickbar for frequently used programs. I don't understand the horror of that idea - pretty much everyone else, including mobile OSes, give the user the opportunity to be able to start favourite programs with a single action.
- nagisa 14y ago
  GNOME Shell has had a dock for favourite applications starting with 3.0. It's on the left side in overview.
Andrex 14y ago
"Power Off" is a default user menu entry in Gnome 3.6 now. :)