On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 16:54:02 +1000
Keith Bainbridge <ke1th3216@gmail.com> wrote:
I've never been a fan of gnome, and I can only say that in the beginning
it was simply because I didn't yet know about themes etc. I settled for
KDE, in the 1990's. I now know that it was the slowest of all, but I
found my way around easiest.
[snip]
So, don't install GNOME. Choose another DE. Just because it's "the
default" means nothing. Or do what I did 7 years ago when I first
installed Wheezy after using Fedore/GNOME for a number of years: Abandon
the desktop environment all-together and use a window manager. (I chose
Openbox.) You'll be amazed at how much smoother and more responsive
everything is without doing anything other than getting rid of all
DE background crap you don't really need.
B