Subj : Re: What's Your Go-to OS
To : Dumas Walker
From : Gamgee
Date : Thu Feb 20 2025 04:48 pm
-=> Dumas Walker wrote to GAMGEE <=-
> > Absolutely. I use ONLY Linux, and use a GUI for many things. I am also
> > quite "fluent" at a command line, and use that for a LOT of things.
> > They both have their purposes and it would be silly to not use both.
> DW> Agreed. I have a couple of boxes (servers) I don't need the GUI on so
> DW> I don't use it. Otherwise, I do. I prefer a simpler GUI (IceWM) to
> DW> some of the other, "prettier" ones.
> I like a little bit of "eye candy", and have been using XFCE for years.
> Cleaner and lighter than Gnome/KDE at least.
DW> I have a laptop that I use Gnome on. It came with that as the default
DW> over 10 years ago, before the big Gnome "upgrade" that made it real
DW> horrible. Because I have not done a fresh install since -- upgrading
DW> via apt instead -- I think I have a version of Gnome on that machine
DW> that can no longer be installed on new machines via apt. I recently
DW> got a new system and tried to put Gnome on it, but the "classic/lite"
DW> version it installed isn't what the laptop has. It was something
DW> newer, so I went with a mix of LxQT and IceWM instead.
Yup, I was a Gnome user LONG ago, in the Mandrake Linux days, if your
memory goes that far back. Early 2000's. Loved it then. You're right
though, it went through (I think) 2 version upgrades and became
something I could no longer use. Reminded me of a Fisher-Price baby
toy. ;-)
... Redundant book title: Windows For Dummies
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