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I'm downloading the Workstation beta now mainly to have a look at Gnome 3.18. I have quite liked Gnome 3 since around 3.4 (used the Debian Wheezy manifestation)

I'm downloading the Workstation beta now mainly to have a look at Gnome 3.18. I have quite liked Gnome 3 since around 3.4 (used the Debian Wheezy manifestation). I can't seem to get on with KDE but that is probably just me. For the 'just do stuff' laptop, I find xfce4 reassuringly gradualist. I'm using version 4.10 with whisker-menu bound to Mod4-space, and with the panel brought down to the bottom of the screen. I hand this laptop to students who are used to Windows and they have no problems with the navigation at all. Slackware as underlying OS but almost any of the larger distros will package a full xfce4 desktop session.

teh_klev 11y ago
I must give Gnome 3 another spin. I fell out of love with Gnome 3 whenever it popped up in Fedora 16? or 17? and switched to KDE 4 which I kinda like. I have a spare Dell Vostro 1720 laptop with a nice 1900x1200 display I can blow away and play with. My main machine is still Windows 7 (about to be 10) because I spend 50% of my day inside Visual Studio/SQL Server/IIS, and we still use Exchange (therefore Outlook) and Word...etc. Also for the life of me I still cannot get Fortigate's VPN client (essential because I'm a remote worker) to play nice with Linux yet, otherwise I'd probably switch and virtualise my Windows bits. I know the Linux OpenVPN stuff should work with our VPN hardware but I've never worked out which knobs to to dial, maybe a project for the weekend.