Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?
I had to use xfce on my old T43 although Mate would be closer to Gnome.
Original Message
From: Bret Busby
Sent: Thursday, 13 August 2015 11:38
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?
On 13/08/2015, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:38:19 -0400 (EDT), Patrick Bartek wrote:
>>
>> I've never used GNOME 3. It won't fully run on any of my systems since
>> none don't have 3D capability. So, it goes into "fallback" mode.
>
> I assume you meant to say "none have 3D capability".
>
> When GNOME 3 first came out, it had a "fallback mode" for systems without
> 3D graphics acceleration capability. "Fallback mode" was essentially the
> GNOME 2 interface. I continued to use GNOME 3 in fallback mode for a
> while. Changing desktops is a lot of work, and I'm lazy. But eventually,
> GNOME 3 eliminated fallback mode. At that point, GNOME 3 became totally
> unusable for me. I have at least two systems without 3D graphics
> capability: one desktop and one laptop. I'm not sure about the others.
> Anyway, elimination of fallback mode from GNOME 3 forced the issue.
> I had to switch to something else. I did some research, and discovered
> that XFCE was a popular desktop with a GNOME2-like interface and
> was designed to accommodate applications written for GNOME. I thought it
> would be a relatively smooth transition for me. So I tried it. I've never
> looked back.
>
> XFCE is my standard desktop now. When doing new installs on new
> machines, I install XFCE as the desktop by selecting it as the desktop
> of choice in the Debian installer. If I were to start over from scratch
> today, I might try LXDE. But I'm happy with XFCE, and I see no compelling
> reason to change at this point.
>
Maybe it would be worth having a look at ubuntu-mate.org, downloading
the iso image, and running it as a live disk.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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