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Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

Posted Nov 13, 2011 16:50 UTC (Sun) by deepfire (subscriber, #26138)
In reply to: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) by ovitters
Parent article: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

Putting words in your mouth differs from helping you to understand the implications of things you say yourself.

Yes, the Gnome release policy _effectively_ forces its users to move on to newer versions. You simply cannot argue with that. You even just said it again -- "We give support for stable version for 2 releases after the first one."

Before, while the desktop paradigm was remaining familiar, it was not terribly important.

Today, we're left at the doors of a significant change, without any contingency plan (yes, collectively, many of us expected the fallback mode to be such a contingency plan).

It's really simple. Just try to use a little empathy.


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