LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

[stan]

On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:19:05 +0200
Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote:

> And I'm curious why doesn't anyone even mention KDE as an alternative
> for Gnome3? As it seems, these days KDE4 is by far the most advanced,
> most mature and most configurable desktop environment out there.

On my old hardware, KDE is a resource hog.  The DE runs like it is
moving through molasses.  On newer hardware it probably isn't
noticeable.  And for the short time I did run it, it was different
enough that there was a learning curve.  LXDE and XFCE are probably
much closer to Gnome 2 in behavior.

I'm using the Gnome 3 fallback mode on F15, and my DE has snappy
response. I suspect the same would be true of LXDE or XFCE.