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On 13 April 2014 18:00:55 BST, bad apple <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >I say this as a Gnome user, I'm looking at 3.10 right now (through the >prism of Awesome, to be clear). Gnome's only advantage these days is >that it's still not as terrible, unintuitive and bloated as KDE, the >only *nix DE to manage the impressive task of being even more hateful >than the native Windows or Mac OS X environment. > How about Unity? That's pretty awful. >Earlier today I was updating some nekochan ports on my Octane2, which >runs Irix 6.5.30 and the Indigo Magic Desktop GUI. IDM is 21 years old, >and is better than Gnome in almost every conceivable way - just for a >start, I'm allowed transparency if I want it, I get all three buttons >(close, minimize, maximise) in the top right of all application windows >and it doesn't have a bunch of retarded linux-only dependencies like >systemd. Oh, and it's much, much faster as well, and quite a lot >prettier out of the box. Is there any clone available for Linux? >Thankfully I'm not that hung up on desktop environments, as long as >they >provide me with several virtual spaces to put all my terminals and let >me set a cool background picture of some kitties I'm not really that >bothered what I use but all the same... some consistency would be nice. > >Now I'm going to cross my fingers and pray the next story I read will >be >that RedHat are broke and as a result they've had to fire Lennart >Poettering. Once can hope. > >Regards I've recently installed Linux Mint XFCE on a low ish spec machine I have kicking around at home and it's actually looking pretty good, almost considering switching to XFCE on my laptop. Rob -- Sent from my Sinclair ZX Spectrum -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq