> ray <r...@aarden.us> wrote: > Gnome is referred to as a desktop environment, as it is much more than > just a manager of windows, menus etc. KDE is the other heavyweight DE, > there are two medium-weight DEs, LXDE and Xfce4. There is also at least > one fork of an older version of Gnome, as the current Gnome is a bit > heavy on resources and won't run well on hardware more than a few years > old.
I see this mentioned a lot that Gnome-Shell won't run on hardware more than a "few" years old. This is patently false. I've run it on a laptop more than 7 years old with no issue what-so-ever. Gnome-Shell just disables stuff if it isn't supported hardware wise - some of the more interesting video effects that is. The issue isn't so much the hardware but the amount of ram one has on the applicable hardware. Even 7 year old hardware often has 1Gb of ram or even more. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140406002255.GA12265@Jessie
