Fedora 32 Linux-based OS Available For Download With GNOME 3.36 (betanews.com) 33
Today, Fedora 32 becomes available for download. From a report: It comes with GNOME 3.36 which you can read more about here. If you don't like GNOME, it isn't the end of the world -- you can instead choose KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, MATE, and more. There is even a special ARM variant of Fedora 32 that will work with Raspberry Pi devices. "Fedora 32 includes new features aimed at addressing issues facing modern developers and IT teams. Highlights include key updates to Fedora's desktop-focused edition, Fedora 32 Workstation, and a new computational neuroscience lab image, aimed at bringing those working in science fields to open source software. Each Fedora edition is designed to address specific use cases for modern developers and IT teams with Fedora Workstation and Fedora Server providing open operating systems built to meet the needs of forward-looking developers and server projects," says The Fedora Project development team.
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"If you don't like GNOME" (Score:2, Insightful)
Nobody likes GNOME.
Re:"If you don't like GNOME" (Score:4, Informative)
KDE and Qt are quite nice, and the people who own the IP have a history of doing crazy things with the licenses. Just a few weeks ago it happened again - as the sentiment you expressed was becoming majority. :sigh:
Also KDE 4.0 was a hot mess that took years to clean up. That left some bitter tastes.
Current Plasma has very good kwin hardware support, I must say.
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I run Plasma on one of my machines. There are things I like, there are things I hate, but you know what keeps me with it? Once you learn it's character, and how to use it effectively, my god it's "pretty" if you have hardware to handle it. (I have a few machines that struggle with modern versions of these OSes hardware-wise, but they function well enough to hold off replacing them) Honestly though, it's hard to switch from KDE to something like XFCE (Which I have grown to like for functional reasons) wh
Re:"If you don't like GNOME" (Score:4)
I always liked GNOME 2. Really not a fan of GNOME 3.
Right now I run KDE Plasma on one machine (Which has all sorts of things I don't like about it, but enough that I do), and my others I run XFCE, which to me has a lot of qualities that I used to like about GNOME 2, even if it feels a little lackluster.
I don't think I'm aware of current any free desktop that I have nothing to be annoyed about, so I won't pick on GNOME too badly.
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It's time for Windowmaker.
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used to have NeXTStation, was great for the day. Alas Display Postscript didn't win and I'd want more than the look
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I had to google NextStation, is this related to NextStep?
It kind of reminds me of an old project I used to dabble in, when I was in high school called LiteStep (for windows 9x). It provided a moderately cool shell replacement to windows (over both progman and explorer), and if I recall correctly, they called the default theme "AfterStep", looking at screenshots I can only assume it was a clone or at least inspired to next. It was highly customizable and easily allowed you to emulate things like right clic
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I had to second guess myself. I almost interpreted WindowMaker as WindowBlinds (if that is what it was called, a software you could install on windows 9x machines to make them feel more like other platforms). My favorite theme of that back in the day was the BeOS looking one.
That said, I'm going to have to google WindowMaker, It sounds so familiar that I should know what it is, but I'll need that refresher. =)
Re:"If you don't like GNOME" (Score:5, Informative)
why not use MATE the fork of GNOME2? I like that.
Re: "If you don't like GNOME" (Score:3)
Hey thanks for the suggestion. I hadn't known a lot about MATE aside from occasionally hearing it mentioned. Might make for an interesting physical distancing projects on one of my less mission critical machines this weekrnd.
Lately i have less desire to tinker(once a machine works well enough I tend to live with it for a while), back in the day my poison was enlightenment on slackware. These days however, productivity a real thing. Now that i think about it, i cannot remember which window manager i sett
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Boy, 20 years. I think my terminology is way off, Enlightenment *was* the "window manager" wasn't it. But you had to stick it on top of something like GNOME or KDE as a base didn't you?
Anyways, it looked so different than anything else I could find at the time, it was so worth taking the time to build it and set it up. =)
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Better to use Cinnamon on Gnome3. That way you get the newer underlying tech of Gnome3 with a UI which is useable (Cinammon).
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Nothing I run needs that "newer underlying tech." MATE is extremely useable without artsy fartsy eye candy and effect crap I don't need.
Thunderbird, virtualbox for couple work apps that require win 10, Chrome and Firefox, terminal windows, PAN newsreader for gmane, Libreoffice, Calibre for books, vlc and mplayer, GIMP.
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If you liked Gnome 2, why not run MATE? It's essentially identical to the best versions of Gnome 2 with some slight but non-jarring modernisation.
I thought that 'peak Gnome 2' was whatever version was supplied with Ubuntu 10.04 until MATE got properly 'done' (maybe 4 years ago), but now I'm *very* content with MATE.
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I just responded to another similar suggestion, thank you for this. While I had heard MATE in passing, I hadn't ever looked into this. Might make a fun weekend project to check out! =)
Re:"If you don't like GNOME" (Score:5, Informative)
Re:"If you don't like GNOME" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"If you don't like GNOME" (Score:4, Interesting)
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I could be way out in left field here. But what really turned me away from GNOME in the first place, when I started looking into solutions like XFCE, was when Canonical brought out "Unity". To me GNOME 3 reminds me too much of Unity. The same reason I had to install Classic Shell on any Windows 8 based machines I had to use. Didn't feel natural or intuitive when using a mouse to interact with the machine.
As a daily driver, GNOME 3 has a similar feel, with too many things like moving your mouse too close
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Nobody likes GNOME.
I love Gnome.
Not in it's default state obviously, because out of the box Gnome is awful.
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It's not so much that I don't like it. To me, I shouldn't be aware of it. I should never have to Google how to do normal things. When I have to do that, I start noticing the UI and that's a failure.
Or read more about it here actually (Score:5, Informative)
So instead of giving clicks to BetaNews' website, which is a pretty useless spot to go to get information about GNOME 3.36, Fedora 32, or pretty much any actual tech news. How about you all go to the GNOME website directly here [gnome.org]. Which has way more information about GNOME 3.36 than BetaNews. Or head over to the Fedora 32 release notes here [fedoraproject.org] which BetaNews doesn't even touch nor even come close to reporting the full story. In short, just skip BetaNews, there's way better sources of information for you.
Which by the by, editors of Slashdot, how about making an active effort on sending people to the actual horse's mouth rather than to some fluff site that doesn't cover one iota of the story? Seriously, from the summary about.
It comes with GNOME 3.36 which you can read more about here.
And then when you click on that link you go to BetaNews which indicates...
You can read more about GNOME 3.36 here.
Which that link sends you to yet another BetaNews article which indicates...
you can peruse the full release notes here.
Which finally takes you to the actual spot that gives you some useful information. I mean seriously, what the hell? Is Slashdot just wanting to be a shill for BetaNews? I mean, this isn't the first time Slashdot basically said, "Hey head over to BetaNews for more news from BetaNews!!" But c'mon, this is getting ridiculous for how much click farming BetaNews is going for here. Slashdot editors don't have to actually be this shameless in sending its users to click farms.
Nope. (Score:3)
What you are asking for is too much to ask from an ad-funded website.
If Slashdot were entirely subscription funded then I would think you have a case in expecting some value for your money. But in this case, you are asking for someone else's time and effort in return for nothing more than ads that many readers are blocking with ad-blockers anyway.
It's just not going to happen.
The problem is msmash (Score:2)
Sloppy "standards" (to use the term loosely) appear to be a pattern of passive-aggressive behavior against real techies. Flooding Slashdot with low quality space filler posts cannot be an accident. It's sad, but apparently via a financial stake or some other leverage msmash is under no pressure to be different. I know nothing personally about msmash and that is none of my business but the flood of shitty stories contributes nothing of value to Slashdot in any of its roles.
Amazing - actual news for nerds (Score:2)
Re:And there was no rejoicing (Score:4, Informative)
The good news is, you can just download the Fedora KDE spin. It's what I always use, and it gives you a very nice, stable KDE distro that's very vanilla. Something akin to stock Android.
The only touchy thing about using modern Fedora is configuring the Nvidia drivers. You have to add an additional repo, and then install the correct version of the akmod driver for your hardware. After that it's totally forgotten, even after 4 dist-upgrades.
I solved it for good with a Radeon Vega when I upgraded my home machine :-).