Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

[John Bleichert <syborg@earthlink.net>]

On 05/21/2014 11:16 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
> *From:* Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
> *To:* debian-user@lists.debian.org
> *Cc:* debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 21, 2014 2:30 PM
> *Subject:* Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.
>
>
> I recommend installing Xfce, which is very similar to GNOME 2 (and
> also happens to be fairly comfortable for someone coming from the OS/2
> Presentation Manager). It's the default in Debian Jessie, so switching
> now will mean you're on the same thing when Jessie becomes stable.
>
> # apt-get install xfce4
>
> Does xfce come with a lot of bloated apps? I remember that gnome-core
> comes with plenty of bloated apps.

No, it's pretty clean and very, very slim. Someone mentioned that it 
hasn't seen an update in a while but it doesn't really need one. It's 
been bulletproof for me for a couple years now.

Very lean.

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