On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 17:13 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:01:37 -0500 (EST), Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > All GTK dependent DEs have their drawbacks. Xfce still is and will be my > > DE for a while, but I'm already testing Razor-Qt. It's not that good at > > the moment, but since LXDE is similar ok as Xfce is, it might be > > interesting to wait for LXDE-Qt. IIUC the Razor-Qt and LXDE folks work > > together on LXDE-Qt. Perhaps LXDE-Qt would be a better choice as a > > default DE for Debian and some other distros. > > I haven't tried the other DEs that you mentioned. From my research it > seemed that XFCE was pretty close to the "look and feel" of the old GNOME 2 > interface, which is what I am used to, and what "fallback mode" users > of GNOME 3 are used to. As such, it seemed like a pretty good default > DE for new installs to me. But I do feel strongly about one thing: > the default DE should not be one which *requires* 3D acceleration support! > The default DE should be one which is usable by as wide a variety of > video hardware as possible.
Xfce is a good choice. I'm using it for a long time, it's used by many Linux and BSD users. LXDE is very close to Xfce. -- 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/1386281790.1076.134.camel@archlinux
