On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:20:20 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:38:22 +0000, Joe wrote: > > > On 13/11/11 00:13, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> It seems fashionable to complain about GNOME3. If you don't like it > >> (and personally I detest it), then you have three choices: > >> > >> a) Wait until it improves (3,2, 3.3, 3.4)? > > > > No, not an option. Gnome3 does not work on my hardware. > > I doub it. > > >> b) Put up with it as it as it is. > > > > No, not an option. Gnome3 does not work on my hardware. > > (...) > > I doub it. > > Maybe you wanted to say "gnome-shell"? > I don't know. I've just done a long-overdue upgrade on my laptop, with exactly the same result. Not unexpectedly, as it was the cheapest I could buy about five years ago. The message says that Gnome3 cannot be run on the graphics hardware, and gives me the fallback. Possibly it's gnome-shell that is the problem, but that's not what it tells me. Gnome seem to identify Gnome3 very strongly with the visual appearance, rather than the functionality. Perhaps if the Gnome developers had chosen to offer informative error messages, telling me exactly what wasn't right, I might investigate and solve it, but I get the general impression that they don't give a damn whether it works for me or not. If it doesn't, tough. It's not the fact that there is a problem which I find offensive. I've run sid for years on both machines and my last desktop, so I don't expect an easy ride. But I don't find either this upgrade experience or the Gnome website to reach the standard I expect of Open Source, there's a smugness and indifference which I feel is more characteristic of some commercial software providers. And I hate to invoke the Godwin's Law of Open Source, but my other workstation isn't up to running the fancy graphical bits of Windows 7, either, but Microsoft provide a perfectly good and fully-functional alternative, and don't warn me that it will only work for a while. I'm trying Xfce on the laptop. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111113213644.43d09...@jretrading.com
