On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, Bob Proulx wrote:
Russell L. Harris wrote:Can you recommend a good Wheezy HOWTO for users forcibly being migrated from the Gnome environment of Etch, Lenny, or Squeeze?
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You could try MATE or another of the GNOME 2 fork projects that will be around keeping GNOME 2 alive. I haven't tried these but many people have reported good results using them. I expect GNOME 2 to be alive for some time as a fork.
I have been using MATE for a few months now on a Wheezy system and on some Ubuntu 12.04 machines at work. I and my co-workers like it very much and I recommend it as a viable option for GNOME 2 compatibility. The switch to GNOME 3 (or Unity in the case of Ubuntu) was just too painful/disorienting.
Bob's recommendation of XFCE or LXDE are also great, I use them on some systems or for vnc sessions. Desktop environments are very subjective so you might want to give them a test drive.