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What these articles never mention is a follow-up comment by Torvalds: "And for all the people wasting everybodys time with "Why don't you use Unity/KDE/xfce/xy

by Mr_T_ 14y ago

What these articles never mention is a follow-up comment by Torvalds: "And for all the people wasting everybodys time with "Why don't you use Unity/KDE/xfce/xyz" - I've tried them. They are even worse" https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/UkoAaLDpF4i https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/UkoAaLDp...

VMG 14y ago
This is also the way I feel. I don't quite like Gnome3 but it seems like the least worst option at the moment for me. Tiling window managers, fluxbox etc: too much configuration, not sexy enough Xfce: also doesn't look as slick, bugs KDE: sluggish I really like the Expose(?)-feature and really would miss it
- aerique 14y ago
  Just to chip in on the tiling window managers: i3[1] is a really nice one which doesn't need a lot of configuration. Since switching from Window Maker, which I had been using for 10+ years, it has been the only window manager that didn't make me switch back. (I tried out Xmonad, Awesome, Stumpwm and some other window managers over the years. Awesome was pretty close to awesome.) i3 has a couple of issues I like to see resolved but all-in-all I'm very happy with it. [1] http://i3wm.org/ http://i3wm.org/
  - bashinator 14y ago
    Try scrotwm[1] - it's an xmonad workalike, but it's written in C instead of Haskell (not so important to me), and it has a config file instead of ... Haskell (quite a bit more important to me). Also, terrible and hilarious name. [1] http://www.peereboom.us/scrotwm/html/scrotwm.html http://www.peereboom.us/scrotwm/html/scrotwm.html
    - aerique 14y ago
      If it works like xmonad I'm not really interested. I don't like xmonad's approach to tiling wm's (mostly the master / slave window thing).
- ciupicri 14y ago
  Regarding XFCE, I don't think Linus cares about slick if he would have been happy with a Gnome2 fork. As for bugs, I have encountered only one tiny bug.
dchichkov 14y ago
"I want my sane interfaces back. I have yet to meet anybody who likes the unholy mess that is gnome-3." - Linus :) Personally I'm sticking with Gnome 2. Simple, predictable, stable...

by Mr_T_ 14y ago

VMG 14y ago

This is also the way I feel. I don't quite like Gnome3 but it seems like the least worst option at the moment for me. Tiling window managers, fluxbox etc: too much configuration, not sexy enough Xfce: also doesn't look as slick, bugs KDE: sluggish I really like the Expose(?)-feature and really would miss it

aerique 14y ago
Just to chip in on the tiling window managers: i3[1] is a really nice one which doesn't need a lot of configuration. Since switching from Window Maker, which I had been using for 10+ years, it has been the only window manager that didn't make me switch back. (I tried out Xmonad, Awesome, Stumpwm and some other window managers over the years. Awesome was pretty close to awesome.) i3 has a couple of issues I like to see resolved but all-in-all I'm very happy with it. [1] http://i3wm.org/ http://i3wm.org/
- bashinator 14y ago
  Try scrotwm[1] - it's an xmonad workalike, but it's written in C instead of Haskell (not so important to me), and it has a config file instead of ... Haskell (quite a bit more important to me). Also, terrible and hilarious name. [1] http://www.peereboom.us/scrotwm/html/scrotwm.html http://www.peereboom.us/scrotwm/html/scrotwm.html
  - aerique 14y ago
    If it works like xmonad I'm not really interested. I don't like xmonad's approach to tiling wm's (mostly the master / slave window thing).
ciupicri 14y ago
Regarding XFCE, I don't think Linus cares about slick if he would have been happy with a Gnome2 fork. As for bugs, I have encountered only one tiny bug.

dchichkov 14y ago

"I want my sane interfaces back. I have yet to meet anybody who likes the unholy mess that is gnome-3." - Linus :) Personally I'm sticking with Gnome 2. Simple, predictable, stable...