Dear songbird, songbird <songb...@anthive.com> writes:
> Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > ... >> Go with Gnome Desktop. Gnome is easy and friendly. >> >> Also i am using Gnome Desktop under Debian 11 Bullseye. > > :) i'm running testing with bits of unstable and > just tagging along on this thread because i feel a > bit chatty this morning so a bit of story time and > preferences from my experiences so far with Debian > and desktop environments. > > if we're going to plug a different desktop with a > simple interface (as indicated by the OP) i'll put one > in for the MATE desktop. it is fairly consistent for > many years and a lot more simple for my pea brain to > understand and get things done. the other aspect i > was after was being able to handle lesser versions of > hardware that could at times not do as much as i > might have wanted but it did work ok until i could > finally upgrade my hardware. > > having spent many hours years ago when various > desktops were being developed to learn KDE and get my > desktop set up exactly how i liked it and then they > changed it to something i didn't like and so i switched > to GNOME and went through the large amount of work to > get that set up and how i liked it and again had that > desktop change to something i did not like again (in > both the KDE and GNOME cases it was also using more > resources than my older machine at that time could > reliably handle). so then MATE came along and has > done exactly what i wanted it to do. stay simple and > not mess up my layouts and preferences too much as > it updates. thankfully i have not had to do much > more fiddling around or searching for another desk- > top since. > > i have not had to try the other more simple > desktops, but i probably could manage it, after all > a simple console text terminal was adequate for many > years on a bunch of different machines through 15 > years of work even if i also could have multiple > terminals open on a Sun machine. thank ghods for a > good local network all those years (one advantage > of working at the university back then). i really > was spoiled by that and did not really appreciate > it until i was offline more and forced to use dialup > lines and modems all over again. > It is so long letter. Thank you for your real story. You nice guy ^^^ Still i believe that Gnome Desktop is beautiful even though it is heavy! >> Sincerely, Byung-Hee > > :) > > > songbird Sincerely, Byung-Hee (Gnome user in Debian 11 Bullseye)