Acro_Design Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifrit05 Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acro_Design Posted July 19, 2011 Author Share Posted July 19, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derda Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apple apple Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fos Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 I have not tried Gnome Shell yet. I'll put it on my todo list. fos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockinron_1 Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acro_Design Posted March 30, 2012 Author Share Posted March 30, 2012 rockinron has summed it up quite well. i owe you a bit of help when you need it pm me i could help probably? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fos Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 Here is an information link for Gnome Shell It looks pretty interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.picodev Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 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 :wink2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fos Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikethebike Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dddirtman Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 gnome 3 is verry polished desktop...worth installing...yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockinron_1 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beta992 Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Try Pantheon-shell (Elementary OS), it really gives you (some of) the OS X experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dddirtman Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 just intalled gnome-3 on my free-bsd build(had to manually compile it) works nice though. it seems that some distros are taking time to build packages for new gui's..bsd is one of those.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acro_Design Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 I just had to log back in (been a while) to say that I love Gnome-shell 3.10 and all the new core apps , I prefer to use a few extentions to make it more usefull such as and I recomend dash to dock, because I would rather have a dock that sits on my desktop and only needs one click to get to it. ps. for docky and plank fans. I have worked out a way to make the dash launch from docky / plank and this seems to be a lot like launch pad, it uses the super key bound to a .desktop file. I dont use this method anymore as I am used to Gnome Shell 3.10, but it might make OsX fans a bit happier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 I love gnome! For the every day user and office use, gnome is very efficient and if you have the right hardware it flies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
necrophagous Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 ^ the right hardware hmmm... not really personally i think gnome 3 is visually stunning , but the amount of resources it use up are quite a lot compared to other DE ( something like XFCE , LXDE, or the good ol' gnome 2 ) , not to mention the amount of dependencies it needs, and the amount of time it takes to be compiled if by chance you are using a source-based linux distribution like i do. but who am i to judge, it's a matter of taste anyway. as a power user i prefer some dynamic lightweight window manager like awesome or bspwm. Both are certainly customizable , keyboard-driven , dual monitor friendly , and certainly a lot lighter than gnome, good news is awesome can be used in conjuntion to gnome shell as well) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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