LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

[Christopher Svanefalk]

LXDE runs way smoother than Gnome 2 in my experience.

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:08 PM, stan <gryt2 at q.com> wrote:

> 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.
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