The only things I really have to do to feel at home in a Gnome desktop: 1. Fool with the mouse movement and screen resolution settings. 2. Set shortcuts for "S

The only things I really have to do to feel at home in a Gnome desktop: 1. Fool with the mouse movement and screen resolution settings. 2. Set shortcuts for "Show the panel run application dialogue" and "Run a terminal". I use Shift+Win and Shift+Tab for those, respectively. Once I've done that, I almost never have to use the mouse for non-browsing tasks. I could probably improve on that by changing out the window manager for a keyboard-friendly one, but I'd have to learn something new, and I'd have to maintain the wm setup instead of riding along with whatever the distro wants to do (which is far less likely to break)