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A response to a Reddit questionI can only agree with you. I have blogged and commented enough about this that I fear I am rather unpopular with the GNOME developer team these days ( Read more... )

Although the launch of GNOME 3 was a bumpy ride and it got a lot of criticism, it's coming back. It's the default desktop of multiple distros again now. Allegedly even Linus Torvalds himself uses it. People tell me that it gets out of the way ( Read more... )

I think the more significant long-term question is to ask which of the various Gtk2-based desktops are going to successfully transition to other toolkits.Apparently, LXDE is switching to Qt ( Read more... )

I recently saw a mailing list post condemning Maté (the GNOME 2 fork ( Read more... )

A couple of months ago, I tried to update my 2007 Toshiba Satellite Pro P300-1AY laptop from Ubuntu 12.04 to 13.04. It failed, badly -- my AMD RV620 GPU is no longer supported by fglrx, the proprietary AMD/ATI graphics driver. But Ubuntu used it anyway, resulting in a broken GUI.
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