Le vendredi 04 avril 2014 à 15:25 +0200, Stephan Seitz a écrit : > As far as I understand Gnome3 needs more resources than XFCE
This is mostly irrelevant. The resources consumed by the desktop are negligible compared to applications. As soon as you start a browser with a few tabs on non-trivial websites, 1 GiB of memory is barely enough. Regardless of the desktop environment. > and modern hardware. This is no longer a requirement in jessie, at least on x86 where llvmpipe is now accepted as a GL engine. > The default desktop should be moderate. If you want more eye > candy and bells and whistles you can install bigger desktop environments. The default desktop should be functional and easy to use. I don’t call features that go in this direction “eye candy” or “bells and whistles”. Please don’t compare GNOME to Compiz just because it has OpenGL requirements. > My mother is using Debian 6 with Gnome 2. I don’t know if I will ever > update this system. Gnome 3 is not a solution, and I’m not interested in > teaching XFCE. Looks like you are deciding in place of your mother what is good for her. And I don’t think you should in this case. GNOME 3 is very popular among less experienced users, for good reason. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1396620807.5200.180.camel@dsp0698014
