Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?

[Daniel Keast <daniel@kea.st>]

On 13/08/15 13:08, Wayne Hartell wrote:
> > I am currently a Debian Jessie XFCE user.
> > I want to have your views on Gnome VS XFCE.
> > I want to try Gnome but I want to know if Gnome is stable and works constantly without freezing and crashing.
> > Please share me your experience with Debian Gnome.
> > With Kind Regards,
> > Dwijesh
> I haven't had trouble with Gnome3 on both a real laptop (low power Compaq with Intel graphics), and also on VMware virtual machines (although there were some hoops to jump through to avoid fallback mode for Debian 7). Debian 8 works seamlessly on VMware.
>
> I also got Gnome3 running in the Jessie beta on a 9 year old desktop, without issue and it seemed to perform reasonably well.
>
> I can't compare to XCFE since I haven't used that, but I do like Gnome 3.
I'm using Gnome3 on both low end and powerful hardware, it runs 
perfectly (albeit slower than lxde on my eeepc).

It's dynamic desktop management features I love so much. Pressing the 
Super key zooms out and shows all open applications on a desktop tiled, 
it also shows all the desktops in a preview down the right hand side. 
You can drag applications between desktops, if you go in-between the 
desktops it'll create a new one at that point, and there's always one 
spare at the bottom. The left hand side is a dock and the middle has the 
list of installed apps. Right clicking on any lets you create a shortcut 
in the dock.

Super key + start typing to open an application is great also