LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

[Tim]

On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 11:13 +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> And all these other 'changes' making laptops much more
> difficult to use, such as say
> - the 16:9 format of the screens

That depends on the use of the computer.  For spreadsheets, which are
usually wider than taller, they can be useful.  Likewise with
applications that have a picture window and lots of palettes around
them.

Though, personally, I prefer bigger, very high resolution, and probably
somewhere around 4:3.  Since most of my reading seems to be mail and
web.

Most screens tend to be rather poor resolution, so you have little
choice but to run windows full-screen, and with biggish fonts.

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