On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Would someone please tell me.. Why is F-15 such a mess..? The worst >> thing is the jumbled up desktop.. > > The great thing about Linux is that the desktop is not wired into the > system. The great thing about Fedora is it supports and packages many > desktops. > > So > > yum groupinstall Xfce > > exit to the graphical login, set the desktop type in the options to Xfce, > log back in. > > Xfce is a traditional desktop, complete with sharp edges you can cut > yourself on rather than a padded cell like Gnome 3. It is actually more > configurable than Gnome 2.x in many ways as well as a lot faster and > lighter on memory. > > If you really want everything to just get out of the way and don't need > the user niceness stuff you might also want to look at Enlightement > > yum search enlightenment And then there is also KDE, not as lightweight as XFCE, but very powerful and very configurable. A lot of people dismissed KDE after the rough time of version 4.0, in a similar way that Gnome3 is now losing its userbase. But today KDE4 is a beautiful, stable and very user-friendly DE. I guess Gnome3 will get back on its feet in the next couple of Fedora versions, but atm KDE is the most polished environment available. ;-) :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
