Re: [Trisquel-users] Mate Desktop Enviroment and Trisquel 5.5

[Igor . Zobin]

Personally I'm kind of sick of all the bloating gnome and KDE have been going  
through lately. I would like to have a -box based distro. Something like  
Debian with just xdm and fluxbox and software from both KDE and gnome on top.  
I tried it out for some time, it looked like garbage, but booted faster than  
a fresh driver-less install of Win XP and in terms of performance it ran  
circles around any other distro I tried. I'm sure a very reasonable  
distribution can be made out of that basic idea, having no heavy-weight  
window managers, just fluxbox and take all the important software from the  
big DEs with some customized theme so all looks more or less consistent.