On 12/11/11 20:21, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Hi all,
I just upgraded my debian testing laptop and found myself running
Gnome3. I was quite happy with Gnome2 (with a few minor tweaks)
but Gnome3 is completely abysmal.
Can anyone recommend an alternative? Something simple and minimal
without too much ugly. Sorry I can't stand tiling WMs either.
Cheers,
Erik
I have been on Ubuntu since Hoary (dabbled with Warty), and used gnome
on Fedora before that and on Redhat before that, so I have been a gnome2
user for quite some time.
I saw the writing on the wall back in April with the introduction of
Unity as the default install. It was not a secret that the next version
was going to be Unity so I started to look at alternatives, I didn't
want be forced into a change after a bad upgrade experience. Well gnome3
was the first logical choice to look at ....... so moving on then,
gnome3 is ridiculous.
I tried a few different Desktop Environments, Xfce, LXDE, ice and a
couple of others I can't remember the names of.
They are nice and have the basics, but always felt incomplete, seemed
far behind windows and mac desktop which I normally look down on with a
smug expression.
So I tried KDE, only reason it wasn't higher on the list was because of
the disaster that was the first "stable" release of KDE4. Turns out it
is now very usable, feature rich and stable. It is a shame they released
such a buggy version to begin with, as people who would like it now are
still turned off by past experiences (I think this may be the case with
Linus).
So to all those that don't like Unity or Gnome3, give KDE another look.
Onc point of clarification -- I dont mean try Kubuntu, I don't know what
they do, but it's broken and makes KDE look bad, I would recommend
Mandriva 2011 as that is what I migrated to and absolutely love it
(never thought I would say that), the more I use it the more I like it,
but openSUSE also does a good job of KDE (I have other issues with it).
I never thought I would leave gnome, and I never thought I would leave
apt-get (urpmi is awesome and even has some features I never saw in
apt), but there we have it.
I'm so happy with KDE now that I no longer miss gnome2.
Cheers
Tuxta
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