Re: [LAU] Debian desktop news

From: Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Aug 23 2012 - 23:32:48 EEST

On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 07:37:25AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 09 August 2012 07:34:50 david did opine:
>
> > On 08/09/2012 01:08 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Thursday 09 August 2012 07:07:23 david did opine:
> > >> Debian is dropping GNOME3 as their default desktop environment, and
> > >> going with XFCE. Why? Because they can't fit Debian+GNOME3 onto a
> > >> single CD.
> > >
> > > I'll bet it would fit, if they would just remove all the code that is
> > > in there just to nanny us.
> >
> > But then it wouldn't be GNOME3, would it? ;-)
>
> Gnome4 maybe? Surely that would be worthy of a higher version number,
> indicating real progress.
>

I think they were trying to make Linux look like an iPad. Apps! Huge, clicky touchscreen buttons! Meh.

I upgraded my 11-year-old daughter's laptop to Wheezy, and she loves the new Gnome. Go figure.

I'm perfectly happy with ion3, thankyouverymuch, though xmonad looks pretty good too.

-ken
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