Subj : Re: What's Your Go-to OS
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Gamgee
Date : Thu Feb 20 2025 16:48:13

-=> Dumas Walker wrote to GAMGEE <=-

 >  > 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.

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

Yup, I was a Gnome user LONG ago, in the Mandrake Linux days, if your 
memory goes that far back.  Early 2000's.  Loved it then.  You're right 
though, it went through (I think) 2 version upgrades and became 
something I could no longer use.  Reminded me of a Fisher-Price baby 
toy.  ;-)



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