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"Gnome 2 is the 1FUI for Linux" "A major company needs to act as champion and enforcer of the 1FUI by bringing out a distribution that runs only Gnome apps."

by sampo 12y ago

"Gnome 2 is the 1FUI for Linux" "A major company needs to act as champion and enforcer of the 1FUI by bringing out a distribution that runs only Gnome apps." I think starting from 2004–2006, with Canonical and Ubuntu, Gnome 2 was indeed on a good path to become the dominating UI for Linux. But then in 2010–2011 Ubuntu and Gnome parted ways, and the leading position of Gnome 2 was split into Gnome 3 and Unity, with some refugees going to Cinnamon and Xfce. And KDE is still going strong, too.

diltonm 12y ago
Canonical really messed up there. I can understand the maverick attitude but not when it trumps common sense. Gnome 3 was a mistake too and that was a major mess on the part of the Gnome people.
- masida 12y ago
  I've been using GNOME 3 on Debian Jessie for about a year now on my main work machine and I have to say that I'm very happy with it. I switched to it after having used a XMonad desktop for about a year, I think that says a lot. What I like is the fact that everything just works (tm). Just as it used to be on Mac OS X. No need to fiddle with 10 volume control applets on your minimal tiling WM, none of them works well with PulseAudio. Same for the battery indicators, manually loading your desktop background, setxkbmap etcetera in your .xinitrc. You're basically forced to mix-and-match your whole desktop. GNOME 3 comes with batteries included. Everything works out-of-the-box. Yes, the eye candy is a bit too much, but I think the Activities menu is very useful and productive. I can just use my computer, like I did on Mac OS X before. But now I the Linux desktop also gives me much better performance, package management and stability. Only thing I miss on GNOME 3 is a XMonad's tiling system and keybindings. It's a shame they lost the ability to swap the window manager for your own.
- zanny 12y ago
  So then the only remaining desktop is KDE, which is now the 5.0 series and is being adopted reasonably and is not breaking the user experience while improving what it cans. Does that mean it wins?
tehwalrus 12y ago
Can confirm, am an XFCE refugee. Never thought about it before, but that's exactly correct; I don't really know why I use this desktop environment except that every alternative is useless.

by sampo 12y ago

diltonm 12y ago

Canonical really messed up there. I can understand the maverick attitude but not when it trumps common sense. Gnome 3 was a mistake too and that was a major mess on the part of the Gnome people.

masida 12y ago
I've been using GNOME 3 on Debian Jessie for about a year now on my main work machine and I have to say that I'm very happy with it. I switched to it after having used a XMonad desktop for about a year, I think that says a lot. What I like is the fact that everything just works (tm). Just as it used to be on Mac OS X. No need to fiddle with 10 volume control applets on your minimal tiling WM, none of them works well with PulseAudio. Same for the battery indicators, manually loading your desktop background, setxkbmap etcetera in your .xinitrc. You're basically forced to mix-and-match your whole desktop. GNOME 3 comes with batteries included. Everything works out-of-the-box. Yes, the eye candy is a bit too much, but I think the Activities menu is very useful and productive. I can just use my computer, like I did on Mac OS X before. But now I the Linux desktop also gives me much better performance, package management and stability. Only thing I miss on GNOME 3 is a XMonad's tiling system and keybindings. It's a shame they lost the ability to swap the window manager for your own.
zanny 12y ago
So then the only remaining desktop is KDE, which is now the 5.0 series and is being adopted reasonably and is not breaking the user experience while improving what it cans. Does that mean it wins?

tehwalrus 12y ago

Can confirm, am an XFCE refugee. Never thought about it before, but that's exactly correct; I don't really know why I use this desktop environment except that every alternative is useless.