| Re: To kick things off...
Aug 21 2011 on group Gnome-Shell, KDE or Xfce? |
I am fairly new to the Linux comunity, so my "experience" with window managers, etc. is fairly limited. I will say though, that I really like a configurable yet fairly "minimalistic" desktop environment...; one which won't "get in my way" so to speak.
When I installed Slackware for the first time, I found the default KDE was fairly easy to configure, and pretty soon I had quite a comfortable desktop environment going.
Then one day I "accidentally" installed GDM. Well, I "meant" to install it, but NOT run it by DEFAULT! However, I did not know at the time that Slackware looks for GDM FIRST (ie. before KDE), and if it finds it present, runs THAT dtm instead!
Easy enough to fix, but whatever...; I got a chance to "play" with Gnome for a while. I found it to was fairly easy to configure and use as well. On to my point...
By way of the session manager and Gnome, I got a shot at xfce4, and BANG! I just love it! It does everything I need, without being "over-bearing". Its just the kind of dte I need and like!
So, yea, it's all a matter of personal preferance. I like Slackware for its "hands-on" feel (eg. the package manager requiring you to check on dependencies, etc.). If I had a choice, ALL FOUR of my PCs would be running Slax w/ xfce4!
Cheers...
ZTagr (Andre).
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