Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 03/04/2015 04:03 PM, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I use LXDE on my Jessie laptop. I chose this desktop environment
> because I don't want a lot of "stuff" on my system. Everything there is
> essentially installed by me. I have Iceweasel, Claws-Mail, another GUI
> program or two, but that's it. Everything else, I do in a terminal. I
> even use Iceweasel to open the occasional PDF I come across
> (eliminating the need for another PDF viewer). I suppose I'm a
> minimalist in this sense.
>
> I would like to upgrade to Gnome so my desktop looks/feels a bit nicer
> and gain a few extra features I'm missing in LXDE. However, I don't
> want all the "stuff" that normally comes with Gnome.
>
> I have no use for:
> -GUI login screen/session manager
> -NetworkManager
> -GUI package manager
> -GUI text editor
> -Chat/Contacts/Keyring manager
> -Photo manager
> ....I think you get the idea by now.
>
> I did a bit of reading and would prefer the Gnome "Classic" interface.
> Is there a way to install this type of "minimal" gnome without breaking
> it too much? Is it even possible to do, or does it all depend on one
> another?
I think maybe you need to look into some other distros, I think there are still
a couple that rely mostly on command-line. What is Slackware doing lately?
Or Scientific Linux? You could Google for command-line Linux or something like that.
I think BCD is also kind of minimal, but when I tried to run it dual-booted,
it didn't seem to like to share filesystems--or something. I never got it to work.

--doug