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However, yes, it’s sad seeing the transformation from “community” to… dunno… “corporation wannabe”?

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I have a questions for all of the Gnome detractors. Do you get out much? I ask because Microsoft is currently taking a sledge hammer to the current Windows interface. If you want to see change in the wrong direction, go download a free pre-release Windows 8 iso and marvel at the (awful) changes. People are still trying to figure out how to close a program.

My point is that desktops as we know them are changing. Please allow Gnome and the others to due the same and pick the one that works for you. Most linux users I predict will be using completely different desktops like Gnome 3 in the next two years because that is where the entire IT world is going. Linux for once, thanks to Gnome, is leading the way with this transition.

I still remember the early days of Gnome and how people would complain and complain, but it just continued to improve. I think Gnome 3 will be the same.

Keep up the good work Gnome developers. There are people who appreciate using a product that they paid nothing for.

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The development of G3 is lead by a group of people who has hijacked the project and is ignoring feedback of the rest 90% contributors.

Gnome heads into nowhere. We are loosing key, talented developers.

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Supporters of G3 are advocating false values.

Customers know better what to use.

If USA market wasn’t protectionist that much, microsoft would’ve been swept away by webtron back in nineties.

American model of active marketing is a contagious disease . It fail products: American cars, American vacuum cleaners, TV magz, Amercan styled smartpones.

Quality and not hype makes a good product. G3 is a bad product: it’s a lot of hype and not much of use.

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My ‘use’ of computers goes back to around 1990 when I was able to play with Concurrent CP/M on Merlin M2215 boxes at work, which led me to becoming a 25 user Novell Netowrk manager.

I first used Linux around 1993/4 with set of floppy disks I’d downloaded from my OS/2 based system. My first recorded purchase of Linus was LinuxFT from Lasermoon in 1995 but got RedHat 5.0 the same year and used the distro until about 2002/3 when I switched to Debian Woody. I have been a Debian user ever since with Sid on two boxes and Squeeze on another box and two laptops.

I used WindowMaker for quite a few years but switched to the Debian’s default Gnome when I got an AMD 64 bit system a couple of years ago.

At last I get to the reason for making this comment – I had no knowledge of the survey being run by
Phoronix until I read your blog on Planet Gnome, I didn’t and still don’t know who Phoronix are but I did fill in the survey once I knew it existed.

I have also read the Gnome devs comments and their responses confirm my opinion that they are an autocratic and pig-headed bunch who don’t really care about users but are determined to impose their ideas on hapless users.

I am trying to like Gnome 3 but finding it difficult, as a result I am inclined to dump it and move to XFCE4.

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I have some issues with it; I think they all have been reported before, I subscribed to them on the bugzilla etc – no need to bring them up ad infinitum. I had hoped a lot/most of these would be fixed by 3.2 – but it seems a great deal of them are actually by design.

I also believe you listening to your users won’t yield the best design, or even a good one. The aggregate opinion of users is all over the place, trying to cater to them all will yield something mediocre.

The question then becomes: how do the Gnome designers know when the design of a feature is wrong? How do they know when it’s necessary to make adjustments? What drives them to evolve and improve? Apple had no trouble killing their own stuff and replacing it with something better; they were their own worst critics. What I keep hearing from the Gnome designers is “stay the course” – and as a Gnome user, that scares me a bit.

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