Comments on: Loving GNOME is like loving crack, it is real easy to get hooked http://envisionlinux.com/blog/loving-gnome-is-like-loving-crack-real-easy-to-get-hooked/ systems engineering from the trenches with Jeff Schroeder Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:11:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Taryn Fox http://envisionlinux.com/blog/loving-gnome-is-like-loving-crack-real-easy-to-get-hooked/#comment-44 Taryn Fox Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:31:35 +0000 http://envisionlinux.com/blog/?p=85#comment-44 And here I thought your love of ponies was related to being a bronie. Way to be disappointing, there. ~.^

Welcome to Planet GNOME, and I hope you have fun with your projects!

]]> By: GNOME needs YOU (in California)! – Unix tips and tricks http://envisionlinux.com/blog/loving-gnome-is-like-loving-crack-real-easy-to-get-hooked/#comment-43 GNOME needs YOU (in California)! – Unix tips and tricks Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:37:33 +0000 http://envisionlinux.com/blog/?p=85#comment-43 [...] to the windy city of Chicago, IL. As a result, I’ll be unable to be at Scale11x and rock the dual 30″ monitors for GNOME like we did every year previously. I had a lot of help from Christian Hergert, Jordan Larrigan, [...]

]]> By: I didn’t go to GUADEC – Unix tips and tricks http://envisionlinux.com/blog/loving-gnome-is-like-loving-crack-real-easy-to-get-hooked/#comment-37 I didn’t go to GUADEC – Unix tips and tricks Wed, 08 Aug 2012 02:48:24 +0000 http://envisionlinux.com/blog/?p=85#comment-37 [...] has been said in the past, but just to re-iterate, “I <3 [...]

]]> By: jeff http://envisionlinux.com/blog/loving-gnome-is-like-loving-crack-real-easy-to-get-hooked/#comment-15 jeff Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:15:35 +0000 http://envisionlinux.com/blog/?p=85#comment-15 Hey buddy we totally agree on some things. I was unsure if you were actually trolling or serious. I still run GNOME 2.x at the moment as I’ve not had a chance to upgrade to 3.x and mutter works like crap on nvidia cards (nouveau can’t power the 2 30″ monitors on my desk vertically).

But it is something new and innovative, if users all cry foul, it will be fixed in a later release. For now, I maintain hope that it will be a superior desktop experience. The shell javascript console is awesome btw. Just like how in open source forks are a good thing, this is something different. Lessons will be learned and software will evolve.

Like Joe Dirt says, “Keep on keepin’ on!”

]]> By: misGnomer http://envisionlinux.com/blog/loving-gnome-is-like-loving-crack-real-easy-to-get-hooked/#comment-14 misGnomer Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:58:27 +0000 http://envisionlinux.com/blog/?p=85#comment-14 Sorry. I didn’t think I was trolling.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=troll

It was meant as something lighthearted in response to your lighthearted (surely) crack comparison.

In any case, this desktop metaphor switch took many of us long-time GNOME users by surprise, especially when it became clear that the traditional desktop everyone’s gotten used to is actually left to bitrot.

I also thought I made a point of wishing the new Shell metaphor success (where, I don’t honestly know) and the last line was purely a question about the future of GTK-developers who still see value in the traditional desktop workflow and design.

But hey, I apologize for the “trolling” and refrain from further comments. Feels weird to be an outsider now, after some ten years of Gnoming (well gnomes vs trolls is an old debate) and still having 2.x merrily blasted on my Debian desktop…

]]> By: jeff http://envisionlinux.com/blog/loving-gnome-is-like-loving-crack-real-easy-to-get-hooked/#comment-13 jeff Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:12:14 +0000 http://envisionlinux.com/blog/?p=85#comment-13 Thanks for sharing your opinion but please do not troll my blog.

]]> By: misGnomer http://envisionlinux.com/blog/loving-gnome-is-like-loving-crack-real-easy-to-get-hooked/#comment-12 misGnomer Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:52:39 +0000 http://envisionlinux.com/blog/?p=85#comment-12 Loving GNOME is like loving crack?

Well exposure certainly appears to have made the leading GNOME devs lose touch with reality (aka actual users)!

2.x FTW! (-:

It is of course their call and I do hope it gets somewhere eventually. Like maybe on some GNOME(3)-sponsoring corporations’ small devices.

Not sure what GTK and desktop-centric developers ought to make of this though. But if it works like crack…

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