On 13/08/2015, Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:38:19 -0400 (EDT), Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >> I've never used GNOME 3. It won't fully run on any of my systems since >> none don't have 3D capability. So, it goes into "fallback" mode. > > I assume you meant to say "none have 3D capability". > > When GNOME 3 first came out, it had a "fallback mode" for systems without > 3D graphics acceleration capability. "Fallback mode" was essentially the > GNOME 2 interface. I continued to use GNOME 3 in fallback mode for a > while. Changing desktops is a lot of work, and I'm lazy. But eventually, > GNOME 3 eliminated fallback mode. At that point, GNOME 3 became totally > unusable for me. I have at least two systems without 3D graphics > capability: one desktop and one laptop. I'm not sure about the others. > Anyway, elimination of fallback mode from GNOME 3 forced the issue. > I had to switch to something else. I did some research, and discovered > that XFCE was a popular desktop with a GNOME2-like interface and > was designed to accommodate applications written for GNOME. I thought it > would be a relatively smooth transition for me. So I tried it. I've never > looked back. > > XFCE is my standard desktop now. When doing new installs on new > machines, I install XFCE as the desktop by selecting it as the desktop > of choice in the Debian installer. If I were to start over from scratch > today, I might try LXDE. But I'm happy with XFCE, and I see no compelling > reason to change at this point. >
Maybe it would be worth having a look at ubuntu-mate.org, downloading the iso image, and running it as a live disk. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................
