My first encounter with gnome3 was disturbing - way too much eye candy and gesture dependence and memory footprint. So, I stayed with older gnome2-using distros, but support for those is vanishing.
I plan to use gnome2-emulating Mate with newer distros (specifically, from Scientific Linux 6 to S.L.7, then to CentOS 8 someday). However, I vaguely recall being told that gnome3 can be configured to behave very much like gnome2. Is this true? WHERE CAN I LEARN MORE???? If gnome3 is indeed capable of this miraculous compatibility, how much larger is the memory footprint and CPU usage? I plan to keep using my older Thinkpad laptops with full height screens and real keyboards, but those are limited to 4 GB RAM and 8-year-old lower-speed CPUs. If gnome2-configured gnome3 is too bloated (and when has software ever become smaller and more efficient?), I'll stick with Mate, stone knives, and bearskins. Keith PS: I am very very NOT interested in learning how to use /your/ personal favorite alternative distro. I am having trouble enough remembering how to use the distro family I've been using for decades, much less cope with SystemD. I'd rather spend my time learning about cosmology. -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
