Sorry disregard previous post posted too soon...anyways...

aruiz wrote:
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How long is "long time"? Mac OS X was definitively quite a departure
from Mac OS 9, and if you compare the early versions of Mac OS X and the
current one you will spot quite a bunch of differences.

However, if you look at a Mac OS X desktop 10 years ago and even today,
I think most people would agree it is not the traditional desktop as
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If you used the Apple II up to Mac OS 9 and then Mac OS X you would see that while it has become more modern and the underlying infrastructure is now Unix based the basic traditional Xerox-style desktop schematic hasn't changed at all.  Look at screenshots side by side and you'll see this is obvious.  Apple as a desktop developer still maintains design standards that are very traditional and rooted in developments made in the 1980's.  Apple's motto is "just works", because the traditional desktop "just works" for workstations Apple lives by it.

aruiz wrote:
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For one thing, the GNOME community has a live on its own, a lot of
things happened other than just a new shell, removal of long overdue
dependencies, modernization of the toolkit and the developer platform.
If GNOME was kept still, I am telling you it would be in a much worse
scenario than it is right now.
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You are already in the WORST CASE scenario with less than 1.5% market-share for all Linux desktops and for Fedora specifically that means 0% market-share if you round up. 

aruiz wrote:
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The biggest impact on GNOME's adoption was the move by Canonical from
GNOME to Unity, and that was in the making long before GNOME Shell was a
thing you could even evaluate.
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Canonical isn't even profitable and last year they posted even greater losses, they nearly doubled.  Apple on the other hand is the most valuable technology company in the world with record breaking profits.  Guess which one you should follow?

aruiz wrote:
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To compare a Linux distribution with Apple is not entirely fair, is it?
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They're competing for exactly the same Unix-oriented workstation user-base.  Go to a web-developer office, meeting or conference for web-developers and what do you see?  MacBooks everywhere.  The whole idea of Fedora Workstation is that you go to a web-developer office, meeting or conference and see Fedora on everything, right?

aruiz wrote:
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Agreed. Can you point to any single GNOME feature that is tailored
specifically for tablet devices?
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Gnome Shell is a feature/product/package focused on mobile interaction for hybrids and touch enabled devices including tablets.

aruiz wrote:
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Again, have you checked GNOME Classic?
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Yes, I have MATE installed.




On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Alex GS <alxgrtnstrngl@gmail.com> wrote:
aruiz wrote:
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How long is "long time"? Mac OS X was definitively quite a departure
from Mac OS 9, and if you compare the early versions of Mac OS X and the
current one you will spot quite a bunch of differences.

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