Torvalds on desktop environments ...

http://www.osnews.com/story/25022/

Looks like his current fave is Xfce.

 

And that matters why?

 

You could ask that about quite a few things in life.

 

And ...
Torvalds Dumps GNOME for Xfce
by Susan Linton - Aug. 03, 2011
-http://ostatic.com/blog/torvalds-dumps-gnome-for-xfce-

And ...
Torvalds: GNOME over as Linux creator switches to Xfce
-http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Torvalds-GNOME-over-as-Linux-creator-switches-to-Xfce-1318538.html-

And ...
Linus Torvalds dubs GNOME 3 'unholy mess'
-http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/05/linus_slams_gnome_three/-

 

I've been using Xfce for nearly two days on Mint 11 but I'm not seeing any clear improvement over Gnome [no effects]. I learned how to tweak a theme though and managed to replace the blue in the title bar (in the screen shot) with dark green.

 

i agree with linux Torvalds gnome 3 disaster for regular users i hate fedora 15 for gnome only and dont have way where to go

 

please check this

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1491800&postcount=125


it say it all by the way dont forget to click on attachment to see

how normal old users feel ...........like about gnome 3

 

Handsome!

 

KDE and Gnome are bloat and Gnome 3 is getting dumbed down, stripping out options that take away control.

And another thing many don't consider, if you're going to be a Linux geek some day, then when you really stop and look at what you're doing, do you really need a big desktop to get the job done?

Truth is, when you've gained some pretty good level of experience, using a simple window manager like Fluxbox, or OpenBox can get the job done just as well.

Here's my desktop, running OpenBox 3.4.11.2;

http://postimage.org/image/2j7g2kuqs/full/

I can do anything in OpenBox like any other desktop, but as far as speed is concerned, it runs circles around everything else.

If I had to stick to more of a normal desktop then it would be Xfce, much faster then KDE and Gnome, thank goodness I don't, OpenBox rocks!

 

I agree! I grabed the xfce spin and added LXDE to try it out. You may want to download one of the other spins from the download page.

 

He'll go back to KDE.

 

I've tried all of them, except GNOME 3 which Vmware doesn't support. I think KDE is the best if you have enough hardware.

 

Here is a Gnome 3 review:
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gnome-3.html

 

The author of that article - Mrkvonic - is a regular on this forum (just so you know) .

Cheers, Nick

 

That's called recursion
Mrk