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On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 18:45 +0100, bad apple wrote: > On 13/04/14 18:24, Rob Beard wrote: > > > How about Unity? That's pretty awful. > > You're not wrong! But it's actually not as bad as it used to be (that > isn't saying much though: I believe the relevant term here is "damning > with faint praise"). There are the issues with global menus (borrowed > from OS X, no less odious here in Linux than there), missing > close/minimise/maximise buttons (which when they are there, are in the > wrong place, i.e., the left, also a la OS X) and general crappiness > though. Gnome 3.x is still marginally less crappy than Unity, but > there's not much in it to be fair and Gnome 3.12 does significantly > raise its game in the crappiness stakes. > > > Is there any clone available for Linux? > > There is actually, from a veteran nekochanner but they never really > finished it off and it's now languishing in the realm of abandonware: > > http://www.maxxdesktop.com/site/ > > > 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. > > XFCE is low rent and ugly as sin, but it does work well, is pretty > consistent and above all reliable. It's also got a much lower footprint > on disk and memory than the big three craptastic Linux DEs (KDE, Gnome, > Unity) which can't be a bad thing. > > Hmm. You make a good point. The only thing that stops me immediately > switching is the massive pile of custom shortcut keys I've been using > forever in Gnome/Awesome that have unfortunately been irrevocably burnt > into my muscle memory. With the way Gnome is going recently they'll > probably all stop working soon anyway so I can switch then... > > Hopefully around the time I can dump Linux as a desktop OS. I've stopped > looking at alternative Linux distros (they're all crap) and am seriously > contemplating BSD as my daily driver at the moment. FreeBSD 11 is > looking solid, and I can have ZFS and pf natively without the attendant > Linux stupidity to deal with. > > Regards > > Iam afraid I just switch the gnome desktop in to fallback mode as soon as I encounter iffy performance or have to think too much about the way it is supposed to work. Its just like gnome classic but simple. its in System -Settings-Details-Graphics I can play with a utopian desktop later but still have functionality. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) A dedicated Linux user /usr/bin/microsoft Skype minions_shop www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq