On 13/08/2015, Umarzuki Mochlis <umarz...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had to use xfce on my old T43 although Mate would be closer to Gnome. > > > Original Message > From: Bret Busby > Sent: Thursday, 13 August 2015 11:38 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ? > > On 13/08/2015, Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote: >> 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. >> > > Maybe it would be worth having a look at ubuntu-mate.org, downloading > the iso image, and running it as a live disk. > >
Since you have mentioned an "old" system, I should perhaps mention that apparently, Linux has abandoned support for Celeron CPU's, as, having installed ubuntu-mate 15.09 on my HP/Compaq NX5000 which has a Celeron CPU, and the associated and subsequent problems, I have found that the Celeron CPU's are apparently no longer supported by Linux, as the kernels are incompatible with the Celeron CPU - a non-PAE issue, apparently. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................