On Monday, October 11, 2021 09:20:25 AM kaye n wrote: > So that's the issue. > What desktop environment would you guys recommend for a desktop computer > with these specs? > > CPU: > Dual Core: Intel Core2 Duo E8400 type: MCP speed: 1998 MHz > min/max: 670/10166 MHz > Graphics: > Device-1: Intel 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel > Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel > unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz > OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945G v: 1.4 Mesa 18.3.6 > > Do I choose xfce, kde, mate, etc. ?
I'll give you my perspective: Back in the day (ca. 2000), after some testing, I chose to use kde instead of gnome (and I don't remember what other alternatives I tried). Everything in gnome seemed hard to see -- fuzzy and dark (just my impression). Kde seemed easy to see, not fuzzy, and nice and bright. (Of course some of that depends on the theme chosen.) I eventually adopted kmail as my favorite email client. (That remains true up through at least Debian Wheezy, in other words, when the primary means of email storage is via mbox. Later versions of kmail apparently use a database (don't remember the name) and I hear about problems with that.) So I wouild like to stick to a version of kde which uses a version of kmail which uses mbox for storage. There is a distribution (again, can't remember the name (it is a bitch getting old) -- Gene Heskett may chime in to remind me, that is basically based on, well, I'll call it a fork of kde3, which still uses the kmail that uses mbox for storage. When I retire my Wheezy system, I'll probably but that OS on that box. Somewhere in there, kde came up with an approach for inter-application communication -- I forget the name they had for it, but nowadays it has been adopted by other Linux OSs and is named "dbus". I used it for a few things back in the day, but don't explicitly use it anymore (it may be used "behind the scenes" so that I am not aware of it). So, I will, for a long time, have a prejudice towards using an OS that uses kde as the desktop, including a (perhaps an older) version of kmail, and one that also includes or allows the use of dbus. Perhaps all desktops do that now.
