GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode [LWN.net]

GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 9, 2012 15:06 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
In reply to: GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode by dskoll
Parent article: GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

I thing you're partially right, but I think the trouble is more lack of capability than drastic UI changes. If your environment makes hard simple tasks like shutting down your machine, you're not going to like it much.

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GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 24, 2012 7:21 UTC (Sat) by steffen780 (guest, #68142) [Link] (1 responses)

After over 20 years of using computers - including Windows 3.1 to 98 and 2000 to 7, for a total of literally THOUSANDS of hours, likely in excess of 10k, just in Windows - and having no trouble in adjusting to any of these (or six Linux desktops/WMs for that matter) I installed Windows 8 earlier. I had to ask a friend who had already tried Win8 on how to shut down (click on username -> log out -> wait -> click again -> click on shutdown -> wait more). Is this the sort of thing you mean? ;)

PS: Well, "no trouble" may be exaggerated, but I certainly managed to complete what should be trivial tasks like shutting down without assistance.

GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 24, 2012 9:01 UTC (Sat) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

Or just do what you did all those twenty years: press ctrl-alt-del and take it from there..