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Indeed. I just installed 10.10 on a Thinkpad W500 using the Trinity KDE3 dstro. I ever cared for Gnome; lack of easy menu hacking and navigation and not being
by jamesbritt 16y ago
Indeed. I just installed 10.10 on a Thinkpad W500 using the Trinity KDE3 dstro.
I ever cared for Gnome; lack of easy menu hacking and navigation and not being able to set different backgrounds for each desktop were among my peeves.
KDE4 didn't work for me, either. Too much slickness for stuff I had no use for.
Lucky for me some smart, motivated people decided to keep KDE3 alive. My eternal thanks to them.
A downside is that most often when I search for help on something it ends up being how-to in Gnome or maybe KDE4, but with a bi of digging I find what command line invocation to run or what config file needs editing.
Truly a great thing to be able to have such a range of UI options (and every so often I try xmonad) while under the hood it's same hackable OS.
- pers3us 16y agoI think you should give Openbox or Fluxbox or LXDE a try. A lot many features to customize, and initially it will be pain in the ass, but eventually you will be satisfied.
- jamesbritt 16y agoThanks for the suggestions. I've tried a few others, and have decided that KDE3.5 works quite well enough for most things, and I've gotten accustomed to the annoyances, so I'm good. But the really nice thing is I can always toss on a new WM or whatever and try it out with very little trouble.