Mageia 6 supports over 25 desktop environments and window managers. You can load them all, and then go from one to another.
The most commonly used are: Plasma, GNOME, LXDE, Xfce, LXQt, Mate, Cinnamon, Enlightenment, Gnome (Wayland), and a variety of lightweight managers. You can load all desktop managers at installation time, and then choose any one at login. You can also install a desktop at will. So if you want the speed of a lightweight, say LXDE, go for it. If you want to play with other desktop environments, do so. If you want to compare them, do so. Duncan > Hi all. > > For about the mid-nineties to the late aughts, I was a heavy-duty KDE fan. > The integration and customization was what I needed, it was good looking > and functional. > > Then it started getting more bloated and slower, seemingly outpacing the > increases in CPU speed and decreases in RAM cost. Or maybe it was just the > Kubuntu implementation. But I found that it wasn't working for me. So I > experimented for a while. Yech. > > I found GNOME to be something of soap opera that required a whole set of > sub-choices (GNOME 2? GNOME 3? Mate? Unity? WTF?). My first GNOME > experiences (with the default position of icons moved from the sensible > bottom to the left) seemed more like an exercise in social engineering > (ie, > what the devs wanted dumb users to do) rather than any real attempt to > make > my computer less intrusive in the path to doing Real Stuff. > > And then I discovered Linux Mint and its wonderful little Cinnamon > desktop. > Yeah I know it's gtk based and has big chunks of GNOME in it, but its > look-and-feel seems less ... disruptive. It's served me well for much of > this decade. > > But I still miss KDE. So I've been having another look. I've been reading > that prefer the Linux Mint version over Kubuntu, and that it's still big > but now much speedier. > > I know it's technically possible to have both KDE and Cinnamon physically > installed on my Mint desktop. But I've also been reading that the two > systems are so different in default ways of doing things that switching > between them is an invitation for grief that will bork things. Most of the > forum stuff I've read says that it's much cleaner to do a reinstall. > > Has anyone else here played with systems that can casually switch between > KDE/Qt and GNOME/gtk? Is anyone here using current KDE? > > Thanks! > > - Evan > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
