On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 07:38:46PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 10:17 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > Stable still might use GNOME 2, but starting with a dead desktop > environment is nonsense. > That's a good point about not wanting to start down a dead-end street. I'm not sure yet if GNOME 2 is a dead-end (there have been talks of forks, etc), although I don't have very high hopes for it.
But I also don't see an obvious alternative that most GNOME 2 users are switching to. XFCE and LXDE get mentioned a lot, but I don't think it's clear yet which desktop environment will get most of the GNOME 2 refugees. So I don't know what to recommend to new users other than GNOME 2 since it probably has the greatest number of users as of right now -- and for new users there is safety (and support) in numbers. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111129165828.gb18...@aurora.owens.net
