Re: My request to ubuntu developer team

On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:07:05 -0700
Art Edwards wrote:

The problem for me is that I use the computer for real work. I know
others do, but it's not even a little bit of a hobby for me. Gnome 2 had
been an incredibly nice productivity tool. To me, Unity is big and dumb.
It seems the world has fallen in love with tablet interfaces. I don't
want a bunch of eye-candy on my desktop. Is there any chance that
someone will fork gnome to serve the original geeks who grew up using
linux?

Use Xubuntu

- Richard
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Richard Kimber
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