Hello, On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen <k...@jorgensen.org.uk> wrote: > I see that there has been a fair amount of talk on this mailing list > about system , Gnome 3 and some general dislike of Debian Jessie as a > result. So I thought I'd throw in my 2 p.... > > I recently upgraded my main laptop (a fancy new Dell XPS with more SSD > than I've ever had before) from Wheezy to Jessie, and I have to say: > Brilliant! > > The upgrade took a while (almost exactly 1 hour) and there were a few > NEWS files presented to me, but no problems surfaced. Things "just > worked". It was a bit of an anticlimax, bordering on boring, followed > by a nervous reboot. It took me longer to make sure I had working > backups and alternate boot media - just in case. > > Even though I had opted to install the laptop with a single (big) BTRFS > file system, this didn't cause as much as a comment by the upgrade. The > scripts just got on with their jobs without grumbling. I was fearing > that GRUB might have a hiccup on this, as I realise this is not a > commonly-used set-up, and thus probably less tested. > > I *did* end up with Gnome 3 - which I initially was a bit sceptical > about. I was a Gnome (2?) user with a preference for the "awesome" > window manager - this did not seem to be an option with Gnome 3. But > with Gnome 3 and the Shellshape extension (could somebody package that? > Otherwise I might!) things are back as I like them. With eye candy to > boot. This would probably not be suitable for my low-powered Atom > netbook, but I'm now confident enough to upgrade that too. Later. When I > get time. Yes, please, try to package it, make a RFP, and try to upload to mentors I asked on gtk-gnome list [1], but nobody had time to package it (I had not time too)
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