Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mike Easter Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Gnome 3: it's time to let go of the past Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 17:41:27 -0700 Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <20140428151448.c6ee3468.rsw@therandymon.com> <87ppk15vnw.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net KMb+CGMxedAQnqacZmATDgG28crFvdzIf27+55M5jDy1p44CCD Cancel-Lock: sha1:2PvFH4LV1ViVm4U0UfgvCW7YuoU= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: <87ppk15vnw.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2511 Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > RS Wood: > >> Which interface would you recommend or do you enjoy on a daily basis, > > LXDE > >> and why? > > I know how to use it. It doesn't hog the resources of the computer. For those who are less familiar with LXDE, this is a very useful guide^1 by Doug Willett, who also posts a number of useful lxde advice on such as lxde forum as seppalta. The lxlinux.com site also has some useful pages which aren't linked from the front page, such as the one for LXLE, a nice lxde distro. ^1 http://lxlinux.com/ Guide To Setting Up LXDE, The Lightweight Champion Recently the everyday linux user Gary Newell wrote an opinion piece^2 on his recommended replacement for XP being PC Linux OS (the Mate v.) as opposed to Ubuntu and a couple of bloggers and podcasters took him to task^3 for not choosing Mint (which LTS v. based on Ub 14.04 isn't going to be ready for another month or so). I found myself wondering why, if he were going to go the PCLOS route (which has the advantage of being rolling which Linux Mint isn't), why he chose the MATE v. instead of the LXDE v. ^2 http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2014/02/5-reasons-why-pclinuxos-is-better-for.html 5 Reasons Why PCLinuxOS Is Better For Windows XP Users Than Ubuntu ^3 http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2014/04/does-linux-mint-exist.html The PCLinuxOS article was discussed by the Mintcast team in episode 193 of the podcast -- Mike Easter