On 06/20/2012 10:04 AM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote:
As for building my OWN desktop from source?....I'm too timid and afraid to even attempt it! Although it intrigues me, I just don't think I have the "chops" for something so intricate and complex!
Build from source (which is very different from writing source code) is, as I said, not usually very difficult. In most cases, it is a matter of executing perhaps half a dozen commands, the most complex of which is just an extraction from an archive.
But a number of alternate GUIs don't even require that one build from source (for Fedora). It's just a matter of a "yum install" or of a "yum groupinstall". (Examples of such GUIs are Xfce, Cinnamon, and LXDE. Xfce and LXDE are designed to be fast and frugal. Cinnamon is designed to take a different path from Gnome 2.6 than Gnome 3.x has.)
Moreover, once installed, these GUIs simply become further options. At login, one chooses which GUI one wants for the session.
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