On Wed, August 12, 2015 4:29 pm, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:07:47 -0400 (EDT), Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: ... > I switched to XFCE because it doesn't require 3D graphics acceleration, > and I've been happy with it. Furthermore, it is designed to run > applications written for the GNOME environment. The interface is similar > to the GNOME 2 interface, which I am familiar with. I'll probably stick > with XFCE until there is a compelling reason to change.
Familiarity breeds content (as in contentment). I started with Debian fifteen years ago, and have used a variety of desktops and window managers. Most recently, when I migrated from Squeeze (old-stable) to Jessie (testing) for daily work, I installed Wheezy (stable) on the machine I use for approx and for the weekly jigdo download of testing. I did not wish to spend time configuring xfce, so I chose the default gnome desktop. Stability never was an issue for that machine (amd64). But I generally accessed the machine via ssh, and then used screen. Now and then I sat at the machine and tried the gnome user interface, but I found the new gnome uncomfortable and inefficient. I need always-visible icons on panels, not a gauntlet of menus. In computing the challenge ought be to devise a good ways to utilize a set of tools to solve problems. But gnome-sans-panels is like a chest with many drawers, the primary challenge being to find the drawer which holds the particular tool needed. So, as soon as Jessie became stable, I installed Jessie on the machine; I chose the xfce desktop, and never considered installing gnome. For my needs, xfce provides everthing which gnome provided, and more (except for the pair of "eyes", which I greatly miss). But as a matter of curiosity, has the gnome on Jessie changed significantly from new gnome on Wheezy? I suppose one can get used to almost anything; after all, I remember the single-button mouse of the Macintosh. RLH
