Actually performance on my machine is worse than on Gnome 2. A year ago compiz run on my machine without problems. Now I can only have either classic gnome with no effect, or useless display of xorg driver problems. Without drivers from PPA, I couldn't even see window frames and installation process was a real pain. Desktop search is rubbish compared to gnome-do. There are only 3 themes in MInt 12. Layout engine is only thing that might give hope of future improvements over Gnome 2. If your graphics chip was an Intel Corporation 82865G you would understand why I hate recent changes in Gnome. To me last few months were a giant leap backwards in terms of desktop usability. What was the point to break Gnome for the sake of some stupid bells and whistles. I'm afraid Gnome developers are entering Vista mode. I have tried Gnome 3 on different machines without display problems, and I still think Gnome 3 is a giant leap backwards.

If a scanner can show your body will there be a chance that a woman can opt out and go through a scanner only for ladies?

I am very close to the limits of my patience. I have seen Mint 12 test edition based on latest Ubuntu and I think in next month or so I might switch. I have't played much with XFCE and I like LXDE better, but any of them two is better than the rest.

I'm getting more and more fed up with Ubuntu. For a while I have been considering switching to Debian or Mint Debian Edition. My friend keeps telling me to try Arch. If I need latest software I can find a backport or configure it from source. Every six months I get more annoyed with them. I wonder if 12.04 edition will be the last straw.

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The deeper we explore the narrower our field gets, and more we have to rely on people from other fields giving us necessary information, hoping that nothing important was lost in the process.

If you think religion doesn't require doubt you know little about religion. There are hundreds of religions out there, can you tell that you have checked them all?

You can't have good unbiased reviews at the moment. Gnome3 hasn't been released yet, and all you can try at the moment are buggy LiveCDs. You have to wait until Gnome3 is released and can be installed in a real life distro and used over a period of time to do some real work.

I have tried Gnome3 on several occasion both under OpenSuse and Fedora after downloading test ISOs form http://www.gnome3.org./ Things that annoy me most are: huge while blurred glow around all windows, very limited configurabilty, having to use the mouse too much, very buggy system.

Things that I liked are as follows: in few places there's cleaner and more simple GUI, new notifications.

I will give Gnome3 a chance some after final release when I can test it in real life situations. At the moment I can't tell for sure if I will like new Gnome and I'm a bit worried that eventually I might have to look for another desktop environment.

Does it mean, that one day, some Rubyist will write a tool to scan your source looking for monkey pathing? Some Java/C++ editors have tools to take care of searching for operator overloading to make your job easier. No matter how hard you try you will always have problems with program maintenance. Does it mean that someone else has to use less powerful, and less expressive language? Or rather do you think your code should be commented properly, so there are no problems mentioned in your post?

I've been using Ruby since 2002, and started dabbling with Rails only this year. To be honest, Rails make me cringe sometimes. In general with version 3 things went a bit in right direction, so who knows, maybe one day more people will be happy with the framework. Some people seem to be aware of potential problems with Ruby and Rails, if you have time watch this quite interesting talk from RailsConf 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3iRjKj7C0

The fact that Ruby and Rails make bad programming practices possible doesn't prove anything. The same can be said about any language. I'd rather apply something that has been already said about Lisp. Ruby and Rails are programmer amplifiers, making performance of bad programmers worse, and good programmers even better. Monkey patching can be a very powerful approach, if used properly. It makes possible to write very readable code. It's not so much about changing your code but rather extending it. It can be a very useful technique if used properly.

What is the point in relentless chase for more features? I am pleased with spartan Gnome, and to me it offers better experience. People have different tastes, and beauty of Linux is that you can choose different desktop without being forced to use something you don't like. In my opinion it would be better if more energy was spent on adding features and polishing various applications instead of desktop environments.

then they fight you, and then you win

Learn the basics of Lisp and try again :-). When you use Emacs + slime it sounds like most wonderful symphony when you press right key chords.

You already have example of that when you run nautilus in browser mode and have a tree view in side pane. Now imagine having chance to put spatial equivalent of side pane wherever you want, or even have several 'side panes'.

It's a matter of taste I think. There will always be some people who like spatial mode.