Comment Re:gnome (Score 1) 267
Mate works very well for me on several different distros. So you can have your Gnome 2 back, and even better it is being updated and improved while being true to the original paradigm which works great for me.
When I first got into Linux I was a Windows 95 refugee, and I wasn't too familiar with how Linux actually worked. I messed around a bit with FVWM95 but that never worked for me. Then KDE 1.0 was released and that made Linux work for me. That was the last time I ever used Windows. The single-click thing drove me nuts though. It took until KDE 2.0 to get that to be an option. Somewhere along the line I started using Gnome 1.0 which sucked horribly (unstable) but I stuck with it for whatever reason. I've tried to use KDE along the way v2, v3, v4, but I always came back to Gnome. Not sure why. I think it's because KDE never looked right to me. Which is odd because I use a lot of Qt apps that look great with GTK themes! I jumped from Gnome 2 to Mate though. Tried Gnome 3 but it doesn't work the way I do and I don't want to learn to work the way it does. Why should I? A computer is just a tool, not an experience.