On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 02:15:02PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Also, I was not in a position to try gnome 3.4 myself at all, hardware, > and bandwidth wise, until rather too late in the release cycle. I didn't > see conclusive proof that gnome 3.4 was really the wrong default for > wheezy until I started putting it on end-user machines and seeing them > struggle with it, and then be perfectly happy when switched to xfce. > (A few such real world tests are much more useful than a metric mutt-load > of threads.)
I can confirm that XFCE tends to work much better than GNOME on older hardware, and has for years. Back when my iBook G3 was my only laptop, I installed XFCE on it because GNOME eventually became too heavyweight. I can also say that generally people who come from Windows and Mac OS X tend to understand and be able to work with XFCE a little more easily than GNOME, in my experience. I have friends who have seen me use both, and they have generally found GNOME Shell a bit confusing when they've needed to use my laptop. Finally, XFCE provides a bit more customizability out of the box than GNOME does, or at least it did when I switched. I distinctly remember that there were several settings that XFCE provides in the settings dialogs that required arcane trips through the gconf/dconf settings, if they were there at all. It's possible that's changed, though. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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