On a clean load 32 or 64 bit on my Athlon 64 with Geforce 6100 video, as soon as X runs for the first time after boot (gdm) I have no mouse cursor. This OS so far has been annoying to try to get working correctly.įirst off. Even with the tweeks required to bring FC5 up to speed, such as adding in mp3 and nvidia drivers, multimedia, etc., I like the way it resembles Redhat’s product enough so it is comfortable to jump between Fedora and Redhat Enterprise at work. I actually wouldn’t reccomend it to newbies unless I could set it up for them and lock it down since the setup options are more flexible than Ubuntu’s but also more complex and awkward. and a test bed for Redhat, as we all know. Since Fedora favors Gnome though if you are a KDE user it is probably not the distro. It is a nice compromise between simplicity and raw technical power. Anything that the ‘simple’ UI can’t do I just open a shell and do it there. I actually like the way Gnome 2.14’s UI is simple and streamlined without all the bells and distracting whistles of KDE.
Your issue is more likely with the design of Gnome 2.14. It is essentially just Gnome 2.14 running with the Clearlooks theme. Saying FC5’s UI is dummed down is an overgeneralization. Sure large disks are cheap these days, but well designed systems are hard to come by. True, but installing KDE on FC5 also adds tremendous bloat, as there are *huge* chunks of GNOME that cannot be removed without seriously borking the system. “ Nothing prevents you to insall KDE or whatever other less dumbed down UI you prefer in most cases it is only a “yum install” away.” In order to get things more to our liking (without switching systems or distributors) we the users are forced to do more work. Yes, we can, or more often go with another system that is more suitable to our needs and desires, but those are not the points I care to make here. “ The people who feel uncomfortable with this, are usually the people that are in the position to be able to undumb it” In the case of GNOME it’s simplicity is a powerful constraint when you want or need functionality beyond what they’ve allowed access to. “ Today there are a lot more people that can handle a dumbed down interface than a non dumb one.” I however do not agree that FC5/GNOME are doing it the right way. “ At least not if it is done in the right way.”Īgreed. There is a difference between dumbed down and simple, and IMO, what I experience in FC5 is dumbed down. “ However, I don’t think dumbing down the UI is such a bad idea.” Nothing prevents you to insall KDE or whatever other less dumbed down UI you prefer in most cases it is only a “yum install” away. That is something that is beneficial to all Linux users newbies as well as advanced users. Having many users increases the chance of good hardware and application support for Linux. So, if you want Linux on as many desktops as possible “dumbed down” is good. The people who feel uncomfortable with this, are usually the people that are in the position to be able to undumb it, while the people who need the dumbed down version, have no way of changeing it fit their needs. Today there are a lot more people that can handle a dumbed down interface than a non dumb one. At least not if it is done in the right way. However, I don’t think dumbing down the UI is such a bad idea. So if its dumbed down you should probably blame the gnome developers not the Fedora people. IMO, it would be a fantastic distribution if only they would:Īs far as I know it is a fairly standard Gnome 2.14 that is used in FC5.
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