These might help - I think they override the setttings in gconf:

gsettings set org.gnome.metacity new-windows-always-on-top false
gsettings set org.gnome.metacity no-focus-windows

The whole gconf/dconf thing is a mess right now, but it seems more and more applications are switching to dconf only. dconf-editor isn't quite as useful as gconf-editor though - there's no "Find" function yet, for example. I'd still rather see all these options exposed in a decent UI somewhere - gnome-tweak-tool would be a good place for the Gnome devs to put all this, but it needs to be part of the standard collection, and visible in System Settings rather than being undiscoverable.

There's always been shitty music about. The beauty of the internet is that you don't have to get all your information about interesting music purely from the radio (although BBC 6 Music and the evening music shows on BBC Radio Scotland have been the driver behind most of my recent music purchases). Pandora, Spotify, last.fm etc are all there to act as crap filters.

I'm too young to have seen Debbie Harry in her glory days, but I did see her play with Blondie at Glastonbury about 12 years ago - good, but not quite as great as they would have been 20 years earlier... she was dancing a bit like someone's pissed auntie at a wedding reception. Still had the voice though.

So, touch the button that does the same thing as the key shortcut. You're not forced to use the shortcut - it's there if you find it more convenient (ie you don't want to spin the mouse across two monitors to hit the hot corner, you press Super instead. It doesn't mean you can't use the mouse/touch interface if you prefer that. Key shortcuts are just that- shortcuts, not replacements. It's not like if you press Ctrl-S to save a document, you can never use the File->Save menu again.

One hand for mouse, one hand for keyboard. Mouse does most of the work, keyboard hand occasionally stops picking nose and presses a few keys to save mouse hand some work.

Modal dialogs in Gnome 3 are fixed to the parent window by default. If it bugs you, change it:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.overrides attach-modal-dialogs false

or use dconf-editor to do the same thing

Gnome 3's been the default in Fedora for three releases now. I don't see that changing, regardless of what downstream distributions may choose for themselves..

I don't know what Red Hat's plans for the default DE in RHEL7 are, but it's not like they're bound to choose the same defaults as Fedora. If MATE works reliably in F18 then RH may well choose it for RHEL, but that doesn't affect Fedora's choice of default, given that part of Fedora's remit is to get bleeding edge software onto a large number of machines precisely to iron out these kinds of issues.

Besides, if you're deploying RHEL across hundreds of machines, you're probably not going with the defaults anyway. You're free to choose whatever DE you like as long as it's supported - LXDE, KDE, XFCE, MATE, Gnome 3 should all be available.

There's no need to actually consult the cheat sheet. It's actually signposted in the UI: when dragging, if the pointer approaches a window edge, blue shading appears indicating the shape the window will snap to - I'm fairly sure this is the way Windows does it as well.

I have two monitors (of differing resolutions). I like to place windows near the edge sometimes. The tiling and maximising features only activate if the pointer goes within about 20 pixels of the screen edge, which is easily avoided if your intention is to push a window to the edge rather than tile it. You can also send windows to the back by middle-clicking on the titlebar, which I find useful with focus-follows-mouse and no click-to-raise. Both Alt-Tab/button-above-tab or the expose view work for switching windows quickly as well.

If you like having maximise/minimise buttons on the titlebar, they are easy to restore with gnome-tweak-tool. I don't actually find them necessary.

In the US, the public have guns and are allowed to shoot you (in "self-defense", apparently).

No, TFS doesn't tell you the full story as usual. He issued a series of messages, not all directed at Tom Daley that were threatening and abusive, and included death threats : "i dont give a shit bruv i'm gonna drown him and i'm gonna shoot you he failed why you suporting him you cunt " "shut your dirty little mouth you cunt i'm going to kill you when your back trust me " and so on. I would say these were grossly offensive, and also indecent and menacing, though not obscene.

Little boys spraying in public need a slap on the wrist, which is all he's getting.

Eh? No one's removing Gnome 3 from Fedora. MATE is being added as an extra desktop environment. Gnome 3 will still be the default. This is an additional feature, not a replacement.

You could always press the Super/"windows" key or whatever itls labelled on your keyboard. Gets you to the overview without needing to lift your hands off the keyboard - pretty much everything in gnome-shell can be done with keyboard shortcuts, often the same shortcuts that worked in Gnome 2 (ctrl-alt-up/down arrow to switch workspaces for example).

To launch an application, I press Super, type the first few letters of the program name (or what it does, like "mail", which gets me Thunderbird), hit Enter and go. Much quicker than the Gnome 2/Windows way of clicking Applications, mousing down to the correct submenu, and selecting from there.

You mean you never worked out how to unmaximise a window in Gnome 3? It's the opposite of maximising - drag the title bar to the top of the screen and the window will snap to maximised, drag the window away from the top and it will snap back to its previous size. It's really simple and actually discoverable, unlike some other things in Gnome 3.

https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet
"Window maximizing and tiling: You can maximize a window by dragging it to the top edge of the screen. Alternatively, you can double-click the window title. To unmaximize, pull it down again. By dragging windows to the left and right edges of the screen you can tile them side by side. "

But everybody knows that the appereciation of bebop is much enhanced by a nice spliff, and the late Beethoven string quartets are amazing on acid.

So you don't like Steve Reich much either? Some of the best techno relies on the effect that even the smallest variations to the sound can have. The repetition is the substrate from which the music builds.

I used to be a drummer (spent my youth playing everything from orchestral percussion through jazz to punk and metal) and I love techno,drum n bass, dubstep etc. The rigid machine beat is part of the appeal - it's what gives those styles their distinct characters in the same way that the crotchet-swung quaver ride and hi-hat offbeat makes swing.

There's shitty music in every genre, but musical talent will always shine through no matter whether it's acoustic instruments being played or software ones. Ignore the mass-market entertainment corporation shite, and there's a lot of extremely interesting electronic music being made - check out Clark, Rusty, Apparat, Plastikman, etc.

But yes, SAW produced some abominations, and Cowell is merely taking their business model to its logical conclusion.