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Thread ID: 125080	2012-06-05 19:32:00	Linus Hates It.......................................	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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1279806	2012-06-05 19:32:00	LINK::: . zdnet . com/blog/open-source/linus-torvalds-finds-gnome-34-to-be-a-total-user-experience-design-failure/11127?tag=nl . e539" target="_blank">www . zdnet . com Gnome isn't on his happy list . Linus Torvalds, Linux’s primary inventor, hates it . Actually, Linus Torvalds really, really dislikes the GNOME 3 Linux desktop LINUS: "When Fedora 17 released GNOME 3 . 4, I found I could deal with it . I still didn’t like it much, and I prefer both Ubuntu 12 . 04’s Unity and Linux Mint 13’s Cinnamon interfaces, but if I had to, I could live with the GNOME 3 . 4 desktop . " But for Linus Torvalds, Linux’s primary creator, GNOME 3 . 4 is ”a total UX (user experience design) failure . ” Torvalds has long disliked the GNOME 3 . x family . But, as Torvalds explained in his Google+ posting on GNOME 3 . 4: I broke down, and upgraded my old aging Fedora install on my desktop . Simply because my old F14 comes with ancient X versions that don’t contain all the fixes to make Intel 3D really work well . And yes, things really do work better on the graphical side . But with F17 comes gnome3 . And I knew I’d have trouble, but also knew that most of the worst crap could be fixed with extensions, and I’d used 3 . 4 on my laptop enough to know it should be all somewhat usable . Torvalds again: " “And then I want auto-hide . But now extensions . gnome . org says ‘You do not appear to have an up to date version of GNOME3 . ” Oh? So 3 . 4 . 1 (current F17 as of today) isn’t up-to-date enough? Oh wait, no, it’s actually just that the chrome plug-in seems broken . Fire up Firefox instead - now it works . And I can get panel settings and enable auto-hide so that I don’t need to look at that butt-ugly thing that has clearly been designed by some goth teenager that thinks that black is cool . ” And on and on it goes, “where did the “Lock Screen” button go? I can still find+Sriram Ramkrishna’s extension by searching for it, but it’s grayed out - and apparently for a reason . It doesn’t seem to work any more . "	SurferJoe46 (51)
1279807	2012-06-05 20:35:00	Shouldn't he be able to fix it himself? He did somewhat invent the operating system.	goodiesguy (15316)
1279808	2012-06-05 23:01:00	OS yes, however desktop environments, not so much.	KarameaDave (15222)
1279809	2012-06-05 23:07:00	He created the core kernel. the other 95% of the "stuff that runs" wasn't his. His is the *central core* of the OS though, and Android for that matter. I agree, I much prefer Mints Cinnamon interface! :)	Chilling_Silence (9)
1279810	2012-06-05 23:23:00	Shouldn't he be able to fix it himself? He did somewhat invent the operating system. His department is the kernel which is the core OS. He can't be expected to have to dabble in all parts of a desktop system as there are only so many hours in a day. Don't know why he didn't go for the KDE version though. I never did like Gnome even before 3.0.	mikebartnz (21)
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