On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:38:19 -0400 (EDT), Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I've never used GNOME 3. It won't fully run on any of my systems since > none don't have 3D capability. So, it goes into "fallback" mode.
I assume you meant to say "none have 3D capability". When GNOME 3 first came out, it had a "fallback mode" for systems without 3D graphics acceleration capability. "Fallback mode" was essentially the GNOME 2 interface. I continued to use GNOME 3 in fallback mode for a while. Changing desktops is a lot of work, and I'm lazy. But eventually, GNOME 3 eliminated fallback mode. At that point, GNOME 3 became totally unusable for me. I have at least two systems without 3D graphics capability: one desktop and one laptop. I'm not sure about the others. Anyway, elimination of fallback mode from GNOME 3 forced the issue. I had to switch to something else. I did some research, and discovered that XFCE was a popular desktop with a GNOME2-like interface and was designed to accommodate applications written for GNOME. I thought it would be a relatively smooth transition for me. So I tried it. I've never looked back. XFCE is my standard desktop now. When doing new installs on new machines, I install XFCE as the desktop by selecting it as the desktop of choice in the Debian installer. If I were to start over from scratch today, I might try LXDE. But I'm happy with XFCE, and I see no compelling reason to change at this point. -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `-