Comment The fan (Score 1) 715
It is always a fan that fails. You can't buy a high-quality fan for any price. I have 30-year-old equipment with fans that have never been replaced. Current fans are all crap.
And you are not doing these people any favours by telling them they should use some other environment instead, because if Gnome is 95% perfect then KDE, Xfce, Blackbox, etc. will all be worse for them.
Too bad that +5 is the highest moderation you can get. I think this one sentence sums up the situation better than all of the other posts I have read. I, too, am a Gnome user and do not like the direction it is going. The two most common scenarios I see are:
So where does that leave us, the dispossessed Gnome users? I wish I knew.
Make sure your code does nothing gracefully.