Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.
On Wed 05 Feb 2014 at 18:29:01 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
> > Network Manager isn't good, it's bad, however if you like it, you can
> > use it with Xfce too and don't worry about installing GNOME
> > dependencies, since Xfce is based on much GNOME stuff. Regarding to
> > Thunar vs Nautlius, note that if you install all that automatic crap,
> > than Thunar anyway will use GNOME Virtual File System. Xfce is based on
> > GTK too. IOW you could use Natilus with Xfce and don't need to worry
> > about too much extra dependencies, but you still could benefit from the
> > advantages that Xfce has got over GNOME.
>
> Thats why I have been thinking that why not use a minimal window
> manager like awesome or i3?
Network Manager isn't that bad that thousands of people don't use it
successfully. Having spurned Xfce because it lacks a tabbed file
browswer and a good network manager-type manager your thoughts appear
fanciful.
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