Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?
On Wed, August 12, 2015 4:29 pm, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:07:47 -0400 (EDT), Dwijesh Gajadur wrote:
...
> I switched to XFCE because it doesn't require 3D graphics acceleration,
> and I've been happy with it. Furthermore, it is designed to run
> applications written for the GNOME environment. The interface is similar
> to the GNOME 2 interface, which I am familiar with. I'll probably stick
> with XFCE until there is a compelling reason to change.
Familiarity breeds content (as in contentment). I started with Debian
fifteen years ago, and have used a variety of desktops and window
managers.
Most recently, when I migrated from Squeeze (old-stable) to Jessie
(testing) for daily work, I installed Wheezy (stable) on the machine I
use for approx and for the weekly jigdo download of testing. I did
not wish to spend time configuring xfce, so I chose the default gnome
desktop. Stability never was an issue for that machine (amd64). But
I generally accessed the machine via ssh, and then used screen.
Now and then I sat at the machine and tried the gnome user interface,
but I found the new gnome uncomfortable and inefficient. I need
always-visible icons on panels, not a gauntlet of menus. In computing
the challenge ought be to devise a good ways to utilize a set of tools
to solve problems. But gnome-sans-panels is like a chest with many
drawers, the primary challenge being to find the drawer which holds
the particular tool needed.
So, as soon as Jessie became stable, I installed Jessie on the
machine; I chose the xfce desktop, and never considered installing
gnome. For my needs, xfce provides everthing which gnome provided, and
more (except for the pair of "eyes", which I greatly miss).
But as a matter of curiosity, has the gnome on Jessie changed
significantly from new gnome on Wheezy? I suppose one can get used to
almost anything; after all, I remember the single-button mouse of the
Macintosh.
RLH
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