On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:45:57 +0100 alan c <aecl...@candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
> > many people disliked Gnome3 too but the developers listened to the > > complaints and there is now an option to use Classic Mode, at least > > there is when running Debian. > > > > Hint! Hint! ;-) > > Just install 'myunity' > and when logging in, choose classic? OK, I had no idea such a thing existed, I have never installed any version of *buntu on any system I have owned and never actually seen it running on any computer. My only knowledge of that distro is from the complaints of unhappy users. When Gnome3 first came out I soon realised that I would not be able to use it as it seemed to prevent me from doing things the way I wanted to do them. So I tried various alternatives, like xfce, until such time as the gnome developers made it possible to run gnome3 in classic mode. I immediately returned to gnome for my main system and I only have one alternative running today and that is e17 on a laptop. E17 reminds me a bit of windowmaker which was what I'd used exclusively before adopting gnome when I went to a 64 bit system. I have a Snow Leopard running on a mac-mini for comparison and quickly came to the conclusion I'd not want to use OS X for anything serious. I dislike lots of things about it, from the way files are organised on the hard drive, the lack of customisability and the actual look of the interface. I had a brief play with the latest incarnation of OS X on some fast apple hardware with the very expensive retina display and found it so strange I quickly gave up, even the mouse was weird ;-( -- John Lewis Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
