John
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In the battle between Gnome 3 vs Gnome 2 vs change, Gnome 3 wins.
For those of you that have grandparents that recently started using a computer, you'd know that one of the most challenging things to do is click on small things. The hand and arm work together to form a gripping motion, so click & drag happens when just click is wanted. Gnome 3 knows this, Gnome 2 doesn't.
Focusing on the article, change also allows you to apply data to decide if your assumptions were wrong. For instance, the lack of a persistent window pager was frustrating, but a window pager makes multiple workspaces optional. Now multiple workspaces is how windows get managed, allowing the taskbar window list to go.
I wasn't under the 'why did they do this to me' perception, but rather the 'finally, a desktop environment that uses my graphics capability and knowledge from the Sugar UI'. If it's about the users, I think Gnome 3 is a win. If it's about the future of the Linux desktop, I think Gnome 3 is a win there too. If it's about nostalgia, Gnome 3 doesn't care.
The distribution that meets my router's needs is OpenWRT. My desktop is a mixture of curiosity and benchmarking; I'm playing with Fedora 18 Alpha, Oracle R5U8, OpenIndiana 151a r7, and FreeBSD 9. However with the constant news about Valve, I'm posting this from Ubuntu 12.04. viva libre