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Surely GDM will still be available as a package though...? If so, does the choice of default login manager really matter?
by akent 15y ago
Surely GDM will still be available as a package though...? If so, does the choice of default login manager really matter?
- IgorPartola 15y agoUbuntu is all about the ease of use. How do you explain to your non-technical wife, for example, what a login manager is, what it does and why you'd want a better, lighter one? I like this change. I wish they'd switch away from Gnome entirely and go with something like XFCE by default. I want my DE to take up as little resources as possible out of the box.
- crocowhile 15y agoActually the difference in performance/resources between a very light WM and gnome is not that big nowadays. On my 4 years old netbook I run compiz stand alone as WM and I am not getting any slower than xfwm or openbox
- bad_user 15y agoPersonally, I hate XFCE - it's like an interface pulled from 1995. Desktops evolved since then.
- jpr 15y agoYes they have evolved. Not necessarily for the better IMHO.
- joshfinnie 15y agoUnfortunately, there are too many standard programs out there that need Gnome to run. I can't see Ubuntu using XFCE but still requiring Gnome installed; for newbies that would not be worth the effort. XFCE has a steeper learning curve than Gnome for people coming from Windows.
- riffraff 15y agodoes this still apply with gnome3? it does not seem very close to a windows experience to me.
- razzmataz 15y agoIn some of the performance comparisons with Gnome, XFCE ends up consuming almost as many resources as Gnome. That's one of the reasons Lubuntu came into existence.
- andrewvc 15y agoSounds right, but I doubt that's true with compiz
- StavrosK 15y agoDefaults are what 99% of people use, luckily Ubuntu allows you to change the defaults as easily as "apt-get install gdm".