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| DATE | 2013-03-23 |
| FROM | David Sugar
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] yabb
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Debian also offers direct install cd' for xfce4, kde, and lxde, among others.
In fact, at the moment gnome 3 (debian installer) is the only debian install
"cd" that doesn't work, because it still doesn't fit on a single cd...
I came to like xfce, and cinnamon also looks promising, as it does salvage
much from the wreckage of gnome 3. If one likes kde, wheezy froze with a
particularly good version of kde4 for once...
I find neither gnome 3 nor canonical's unity at all usable for real work. I
had not tried mate explicitly (as I moved to xcfe4), but since it is a true
clone of gnome 2, and I did find gnome 2 already to be very usable, I assume
it is as well.
Ron Guerin wrote:
> On 03/21/2013 11:20 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> >>
> >>And then they gave the world gnome 3...and proved your point ;)
> >
> >
> >Yeah well, Thank god for wmaker...
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> MATE for now, I've got work to do, and Debian only offers Gnome 3.
> Maybe Cinnamon later. Gnome is such a flustercluck, but it's
> representative of how things are going in Free Software these days.
> I'm starting to think the end of the FLOSS desktop is near. Not
> because nobody wants to use it, but because those with the skills to
> maintain them have increasingly little interest in doing so. As for
> the new stuff, I don't know who they're writing for, but it's not
> users.
>
> - Ron
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