GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 9, 2012 19:12 UTC (Fri) by luya (subscriber, #50741)
In reply to: GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode by mmonaco
Parent article: GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Thinking that either parents and grand-parents cannot use a desktop environment like Gnome Shell 3.8 could describe the narrowness of some users who train them. How about simply let them try the new shell to see if they either like it or not while staying objective as possible?
Some parents or grand-parents adapt faster than these users know despite complaints. Gnome Shell takes full advantage of keyboard + mouse combination.

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GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 9, 2012 21:14 UTC (Fri) by nicku (subscriber, #777) [Link]

How about simply let them try the new shell to see if they either like it or not while staying objective as possible? Some parents or grand-parents adapt faster than these users know despite complaints.

My wife and teenage son adapted to Gnome 3 happily, and were disappointed when I set their desktops to XFCE or KDE while dealing with an early Gnome + display hardware bug. They genuinely like it, much to my surprise. On the other hand, I've used XFCE for years.