Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE
On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 17:13 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:01:37 -0500 (EST), Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >
> > All GTK dependent DEs have their drawbacks. Xfce still is and will be my
> > DE for a while, but I'm already testing Razor-Qt. It's not that good at
> > the moment, but since LXDE is similar ok as Xfce is, it might be
> > interesting to wait for LXDE-Qt. IIUC the Razor-Qt and LXDE folks work
> > together on LXDE-Qt. Perhaps LXDE-Qt would be a better choice as a
> > default DE for Debian and some other distros.
>
> I haven't tried the other DEs that you mentioned. From my research it
> seemed that XFCE was pretty close to the "look and feel" of the old GNOME 2
> interface, which is what I am used to, and what "fallback mode" users
> of GNOME 3 are used to. As such, it seemed like a pretty good default
> DE for new installs to me. But I do feel strongly about one thing:
> the default DE should not be one which *requires* 3D acceleration support!
> The default DE should be one which is usable by as wide a variety of
> video hardware as possible.
Xfce is a good choice. I'm using it for a long time, it's used by many
Linux and BSD users. LXDE is very close to Xfce.
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