Subj : Re: What's Your Go-to OS
To   : GAMGEE
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Thu Feb 20 2025 09:01:00

>  > Absolutely.  I use ONLY Linux, and use a GUI for many things.  I am also
>  > quite "fluent" at a command line, and use that for a LOT of things.
>  > They both have their purposes and it would be silly to not use both.

>  DW> Agreed.  I have a couple of boxes (servers) I don't need the GUI on so
>  DW> I don't use it.  Otherwise, I do.  I prefer a simpler GUI (IceWM) to
>  DW> some of the other, "prettier" ones.

> I like a little bit of "eye candy", and have been using XFCE for years.
> Cleaner and lighter than Gnome/KDE at least.

I have a laptop that I use Gnome on.  It came with that as the default over
10 years ago, before the big Gnome "upgrade" that made it real horrible.
Because I have not done a fresh install since -- upgrading via apt instead
-- I think I have a version of Gnome on that machine that can no longer
be installed on new machines via apt.  I recently got a new system and
tried to put Gnome on it, but the "classic/lite" version it installed isn't
what the laptop has.  It was something newer, so I went with a mix of LxQT
and IceWM instead.


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