Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE
On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 16:46 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
> Well, the latest update to Debian jessie did it. GNOME 3 apparently
> no longer has a "fallback mode" for X drivers which don't support 3D
> acceleration. Mine doesn't. And the native GNOME 3 interface is
> apparently unusable with such an X driver.
>
> Goodbye, GNOME. Hello, XFCE. I hope Debian will make XFCE the
> default desktop for the production jessie installer.
>
> --
> .''`. Stephen Powell
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Although I am not sure if XFCE or LXDE is good or bad, I am kind of
agree with your opinion about the usability under such an free X driver.
According to Debian's policy, Debian is an organization that highly
respects completely free software, including kernel and firmwares.
However, currently, most hardware which support 3D acceleration require
non-free firmware or even non-free proprietary driver.
I am still a new user, and don't know if we can report a bug to Debian
to say that, GNOME SHELL or Foo Desktop Environment is not usable under
2D free video card driver or such. Actually, I hope Debian can patch
those DE, free drivers, and so on, to keep Debian to be modern,
beautiful, and also highly support free drivers.
Bo
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