On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:54, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
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.
Hi Kieth,
I hear you. I've been using Xfce for a really long time, and it's still
being developed, surprisingly. It's not perfect, though; support for
Wayland is still TBD. But, otherwise, I certainly like it. Much smaller
footprint, although I have had to enable more and more GNOME services over
the years, so that is probably not as big a savings as it was 15 years
ago. Then again, as a percentage of my RAM, the difference between the
usage of the two environments is much less than it was back then, too.
Check your favorite distribution for an installer or live version with
Cinnamon. Try it in a VM, that's what I did. It's exactly what you are
asking for. However, again, word on the street is that they will never
get Wayland support. And it's a memory hog. Then again, you may not care
about Wayland.
As a result, I've decided to go with Gnome3 and try to "fix" it. Russell
is right, there are some cool extensions for Gnome 3 and tweaks that make
it better, more like a real desktop env. It's way better than it was when
you first tried it. Also, you will probably want to learn how to turn off
some services that have been added to Gnome that you don't care about,
maybe the file tracker, for example.
--
PRD
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