LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

[Christopher Svanefalk <christopher.svanefalk@xxxxxxxxx>]

I believe this might have come up earlier, but I would like to once again encourage all those users who are reluctant about making the leap from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3 (now that the end of the maintenance cycle for F14 is rapidly approaching) to take a good look at LXDE. I installed it for the first time ever today, installed Compiz, fiddled around, and eventually got more or less back to the workflow I had under Gnome 2. 

LXDE can easily be set up to have essentially the same look-and-feel as Gnome 2. Also, it's lightweight design seems to have led to a good performance increase at least on my machine. One big problem is that there (to my knowledge) seems to be no easy way to set up keybindings in LXDE itself. If you install Compiz (and I believe you should), you can of course try to use the support for keybinding there instead. I also had to run dhclient from the terminal at first boot in order to get a network connection, but I believe this could be mitigated by just installing NetworkManager afterwards.

Give it a go!

Best regards,

Christopher
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