<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>No need to fork. Use Linux Mint.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Art Edwards<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 19, 2011 4:07 PM<br><b>To:</b> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: My request to ubuntu developer team<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The problem for me is that I use the computer for real work. I know others do, but it's not even a little bit of a hobby for me. Gnome 2 had been an incredibly nice productivity tool. To me, Unity is big and dumb. It seems the world has fallen in love with tablet interfaces. I don't want a bunch of eye-candy on my desktop. Is there any chance that someone will fork gnome to serve the original geeks who grew up using linux?<br><br><br>On 11/17/2011 09:51 PM, R S V Reddy wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Liam Proven <<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com" target="_blank">lproven@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>> But finally I would say that we are home users,<br>> we no more '<span style='font-size:13.5pt'>no</span>' much of the technology under the tree but take only the shadow<br>> which we need. So if our tree changes, we feel some pain.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm afraid I don't understand this at all. Is it a translated saying<br>or aphorism?<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>By mistake, I just wrote 'no', it is in fact 'know'!<br> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>I have noticed that the change from GNOME 2 to Unity does seem to have<br>caused many people much pain, yes. Personally I find this hard to<br>understand, but then, Unity is much like Mac OS X and I know Macs very<br>well, having been a Mac user (as well as a PC and Unix one) since the<br>late 1980s. It is hard for me to understand how so many people can be<br>so inflexible that a simple rearrangement of their desktop makes them<br>hate the new system.<br><br>I think that the best thing that could come out of it is lots of new<br>users for Xubuntu and Xfce, which is not as sophisticated as GNOME but<br>can be made to look and work very much like it.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>(A few versions ago, the Xubuntu desktop looked almost exactly like<br>GNOME, with the same panels in the same places. Sadly, it no longer<br>does, so migrants from GNOME have some work to do as soon as they<br>start using it, rearranging it to the way that they want.)<br><br>Some will go to GNOME 3 running in Fallback Mode, but I think that<br>will disappear in a release or two, maybe in GNOME 3.4 next April. I<br>have read a news story about increasing 2D support in GNOME Shell, but<br>I can't find it now. Once GNOME Shell can run without 3D acceleration<br>(as Unity-2D does) then I think Fallback Mode will disappear.<br><br>So unless the Unity-to-GNOME-3 migrants decide they like GNOME Shell -<br>unlikely, if they hate Unity that much - then even they might well end<br>up on Xfce, I suspect.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Yeah I agree, but since the Gnome users are using it since when they are using Ubuntu (true, for at least me), so they have fallen in love with it (at least me). On the contrary, this declaration never implies that Unity is bad or not good. As I commented (regarding Unity problems, earlier in some post, I guess..), since I heard some people crying for that...., that's all! But if in case, if there were an option to choose either from Unity or Gnome, I bet I would have gone with Gnome. Though this has little impact (little impact even on home users, house wives, kids, etc..etc..), but as said earlier, the thing was that Long Term Support should be intact, other versions (like 11.04) is good to play with or 'ready for sudden changes'; however, at the same time, I agree that it is just 'long term support' and this 'long term' has inevitably an end, like any other thing.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>-- <br>Two atoms are walking along. Suddenly, one stops. The other says, "What's<br>wrong?" "I've lost an electron." "Are you sure?" "I'm positive!"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>