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[Acro_Design]

i have tried gnome 3 and i have to say i think it is the single most beautiful simple interface that does away with menus and adds some really graphical functionality. and i hope that mac will start to use the dashboard in the same way, the only reason i do not use it at present is i have windows programs that are no good with wine or crossover namely the cs5 stuff. its a shame that gnome shell itsnt developed to cross over.

so does anyone else like gnome shell? i would love to see a very similar if not rip off in osx one day

[ifrit05]

I like gnome, but it is to much for my older PIII laptop, so I use openbox. But Gnome is my preferred Desktop Manager.

Gnome has nothing to do with WINE or CrossOver. They are completely separate projects.

[Acro_Design]

yeah i know, i meant that i do not use ubuntu or any other distro because i need sertain windows based programs and dislike the functionality of the alternatives, but that was off topic so my fault for the miss understanding. however im talking about gnome shell / gnome 3 gui its like if windows and mac had a baby

google gnome shell. i realise the way it works is no different to gnome currently but its so much nicer then unity and really is nice to use.

http://fedoraproject.org/

fedora use gnome shell too

[derda]

I'm still on Ubuntu 10.04 and made gnome look alike OSX Snow Leo. I'm also running Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Wolfenstein, Tomb Raider and more with Wine.

[apple apple]

I tried out debian wheezy recently and it used gnome 3.2. I liked it. I had to tweak it of course a bit to get it just so, but isn't that true of all desktop environments. In fact, if I hadn't finally figured out how to get snow leopard on my old laptop I'd be using it.

[fos]

I have not tried Gnome Shell yet. I'll put it on my todo list.

fos

[rockinron_1]

I think gnome shell is amazing. I could understand power users not liking it but for laptops as such i find it perfect, so quick.

Also for anyone who doesn't know about it check out the gnomeshellextensions web page - makes customising it so much easier.|

Also there's an OS X style theme on gnomelooks which spices it up a bit

[Acro_Design]

rockinron has summed it up quite well.

i owe you a bit of help when you need it pm me i could help probably?

[fos]

Here is an information link for Gnome Shell

It looks pretty interesting.

[.picodev]

For laptops,its very nice.But as i consider myself a poweruser and used to the old ways of doing things,i must say i can't live with it.Btw,i got used to Win7->Win8 transition though..And might i add,since i see someone up top mentioned Ubuntu,Unity is the worst thing that ever happened for a GUI lol.Running Debian stable currently,still with the old Gnome.Good to know someone picked up where Gnome team left off... MATE Desktop

[fos]

I just read the SolusOS 1 is now released. It uses Gnome for its desktop and is based on Debian Stable.

When I find some time, I'll give Solus a try and let you know what I think.

fos

[Mikethebike]

Gnome 3 is cool and I've no problems with Wine at all. I can't imagine of any wine problems related to gnome sorry.

[dddirtman]

gnome 3 is verry polished desktop...worth installing...yes!

[rockinron_1]

If it was more dual-monitor friendly it could have been perfect. But then the same applies to ML/Lion. No real control over dual-monitor (and multi-workspace) setups really lets both the OS's down from a power user side. But I stand by what I said earlier; for laptops / casual use gome 3 is awesome

[beta992]

Try Pantheon-shell (Elementary OS), it really gives you (some of) the OS X experience.