The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Jun 11, 2011 0:48 UTC (Sat) by markthema3 (guest, #75626)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience by allquixotic
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Just use GNOME 3 for a week. The mouse motion to the top left corner of the screen becomes so ingrained that you will begin to notice yourself trying to do it on Windows... if you are unlucky enough to have to use it regularly.

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Jun 13, 2011 16:20 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

I can do better: I forced myself to use it for a month on F15 beta. End result: still hate them with a passion.

There's a reason the whole industry fawned over hot corners in the 90s and then everyone abandoned them. They seem really neat at first. Then, after watching normal people struggle with them, you realize they're actually undiscoverable, surprising, and irritating.

My wife, a happy Ubuntu user, tried to figure out read her mail on my F15 desktop for 30 seconds ("Is this some nerdy Linux command line thing?") and giving up. Bitter failure.

I switched my computers to XFCE. Much better. She stays on Lucid of course.