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I am a Gnome user and I am not at all impressed, I liked Gnome because there was 1 way to do a certain task, now they gone the windows way of being able to do t
by Yaa101 16y ago
I am a Gnome user and I am not at all impressed, I liked Gnome because there was 1 way to do a certain task, now they gone the windows way of being able to do the task at many places, that is confusing and complicated. Gnome was simple but complete, but I guess fashion is more important than satisfied users, just like windows and OSX. I am not looking forward to the next fad.
Anybody knows a simple and consistant and complete desktop that I can use when Gnome got screwed?
B.T.W. I expect negative mod points for being viewed as nagger, but it is how I feel about this Gnome route.
- petercooper 16y agoTry xfce. It's based on GNOME technologies but is leaner and more minimal. It's often used for low spec machines but is great if you just want a super fast desktop environment that's not too alien/weird.
- makmanalp 16y agoEven though the simplicity was gnome's mantra, I think xfce did a better job of it ironically.
- dkarl 16y agoIt's built on GTK+ but doesn't depend on GNOME. Xfce is where I am now thanks to KDE4. If KDE4 and GNOME3 are big boosts to Xfce, I hope Linux desktop developers take the right lesson from that. If they want to keep "revolutionizing" things, they had better give us a good reason to put up with the learning curve and the sudden nosedive in usability and polish.
- pyre 16y ago> It's built on GTK+ but doesn't depend on GNOME. IIRC, it still uses gnome-screensaver, gnome-power-manager, etc. Lots of the GNOME background processes are in use, unless they've recently weaned themselves...
- alexkay 16y agognome-shell is just a window manager which replaces metacity. You can continue using GNOME with another window manager. I personally use xmonad with GNOME and won't trade it for anything else.