M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
I love GNOME 3 and detest KDE 4. I've tried MATE and Cinnamon on
both
Linux Mint and Fedora and don't really see the point of either of them
as long as GNOME 3 offers fallback mode.
Fallback mode is going away in F19, it's already gone upstream.
When you come right down to it, nearly all Linux desktops can be
easily customized to provide a Windows-like workflow (menu at lower
left, panel at bottom) or a Mac-like workflow (menu at upper left,
panel at top). All the major Linux desktops can do this. I've even
done this with OpenBox and fbpanel.
I don't think that'd be suitable for end users at all.
You *do* need a good terminal app - I'd pick gnome-terminal over
konsole or lxterminal or the XFCE terminal if I had a choice but I
could live with any of them. Xterm is even acceptable if you have a
3-button mouse. ;-) But other than that, an awful lot of the
"innovation" in Linux desktops seems to me to be wasted effort.
End users are NOT terminal junkies. :-)
Kevin Kofler