cletusjenkins <cletusjenk...@zoho.com> writes: > I recently bought a laptop, it came pre-installed with wheezy (because the > nvidia driver needed a newer kernel). I really dislike the new version of > gnome. I feel like my expensive laptop is hobbled. It feels like a slow $100 > android tablet instead of a powerful computer. > > I can't customize anything about the desktop.
This is beginning to be more an more and more of a feature for me. Anyway, folks traumatized by GNOME 3 might be interested in my blog, Why I hate GNOME 3.0: http://www.newt.com/debian/blog.html#hate-gnome-3 I would also encourage you to read my blog, Why I love GNOME 3.0: http://www.newt.com/debian/blog.html#love-gnome-3 These were written when 3.0 first came out (on Fedora, which I was using at work). I'm looking forward to trying 3.4 when I have time to upgrade to wheezy. > Everything is buried under layers and layers of menus and all the apps are in > jumbled lists. > > I installed several other desktops, icewm, lxde, kde, etc. I've never really > liked KDE, but it seems to have decided to go in much of the same direction > gnome has (and windows 8, so maybe just maybe someone at gnome should do some > serious thinking about that, if you find you are doing the same thing > microsoft is doing that should be a ). I like using LXDE and some of the > other alternative on older, low-power machines, but most still have a > hodge-podge look that screams windows 95. Icewm was my favorite in the early > 0x, but they lost me when icepref disappeared. Anywhoo..... > > xfce looks the best of the bunch to me. > > My old laptop (the one I'm writing this on) has squeeze with gnome 2.30.2. Is > there anyway to get an actual gnome *desktop* on wheezy sans all this > metro-esque crap? > > -- clet > debian is my main squeeze > > > -- Bill Wohler <woh...@newt.com> aka <bill.woh...@nasa.gov> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ppwvfy26....@olgas.newt.com
