Yes, and the UNITY thing on Ubuntu also beat windows 8 to the punch.  That was when I switched to Kubuntu.  I've had a student testing kubuntu 15 and it looks like the customizations I normally do to KDE have been disabled (or hidden) in KDE 5....may start looking at Mint or something else.
I wish these UI/UX folks would realize that removing choices drives people away. I don't care if you use defaults that I don't like, that's OK. The average user may like those defaults better, again, I'm fine with that. But don't remove my ability to alter the desktop the way that works best for my workflow.

Phil W

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Jerry Snitselaar <dev@snitselaar.org> wrote:
On Tue Oct 13 15, Bob Elzer wrote:
  Which gnome don't you like?

  I really hate gnome 3 and the stupid gnome shell. To me I imagined
  someone decided to copy Microsoft's windows idea of making all desktops
  work like tablets. I could not put programs on the taskbar or the
  desktop. Maybe MS inserted a spy lol.


I'm pretty sure the gnome 3 and kde plasma enviroments came before Microsoft's
changes in Windows 8.

  I wound up installing the mate desktop.

  I'm working on building a kickstart script to install centos 7 and
  setup as much as possible during install.

  I still wish they had the installing everything option. I like a system
  that can do anything.

  On Oct 13, 2015 3:43 PM, "Nathan England" <[1]nathan@nmecs.com> wrote:

  I really wish they would give a little more love to their KDE spin. I'm
  not at all a fan of Gnome. I just don't like it. I have tried multiple
  times at length. I develop across 3 screens all horizontally aligned
  and with KDE it works great and Gnome it is just not an enjoyable
  experience.

  But KDE has enough problems to finally push me over my limit. A few
  weeks ago I installed Xfce and have been using that. I like it a lot,
  but there are a few things that get my goat. I really miss my KDE.


  On 2015-10-13 15:38, Stephen Partington wrote:

  Fedora 23 is looking really slick... and i am liking their
  Workstation/Server/Cloud installer splits.




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