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Edit: I've used Ubuntu a little bit, but end up putting FreeBSD into production. It's the enlightened choice.
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just brew it! wrote:I actually prefer it these days for full-blown desktops, since GNOME killed off GNOME 2.
Flatland_Spider wrote:LemonPOS requires KDE because Qt is the GUI toolkit that it uses.
Forge wrote:just brew it! wrote:I actually prefer it these days for full-blown desktops, since GNOME killed off GNOME 2.
No, they only tried to kill Gnome 2. Gnome was too popular to kill, and the sequel is slowly being adopted, but alternatives remain alive and well.
MATE = Gnome 2, renamed. Same libs, same DE, same everything. Not very future-proof, though.
Cinnamon = Gnome 3 with Gnome 2's look and feel. Getting better all the time.
Forge wrote:I've given up and am loving XFCE again after years away, though.
just brew it! wrote:Forge wrote:just brew it! wrote:I actually prefer it these days for full-blown desktops, since GNOME killed off GNOME 2.
No, they only tried to kill Gnome 2. Gnome was too popular to kill, and the sequel is slowly being adopted, but alternatives remain alive and well.
MATE = Gnome 2, renamed. Same libs, same DE, same everything. Not very future-proof, though.
Cinnamon = Gnome 3 with Gnome 2's look and feel. Getting better all the time.
Yes, I know about MATE and Cinnamon. I'm reluctant to hitch my wagon to MATE given that newer apps might not be well-supported, and it drags in a lot of legacy libraries which will lead to additional bloat on systems which also need to run GNOME 3 and/or KDE apps. Cinnamon didn't seem mature yet last time I looked into it.
The GNOME ecosystem seems like it is fragmenting.Forge wrote:I've given up and am loving XFCE again after years away, though.
Yeah, I may yet switch to XFCE, or even LXDE as my primary desktop environment. As noted previously I'm currently giving KDE a go, and find LXDE quite useful in VMs. A number of things about KDE annoy me, but so far I've been able to find workarounds for most of its (mis)features, which is something I can't say for Unity.