Pleasant experience with yumex on F21 beta

[Joe Zeff]

On 11/27/2014 10:37 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Maybe because I am using Xfce instead of Gnome, but I doubt it.
>
> First on startup, it does not go off and read the packages for update,
> eventhough this is diabled.  Just a bad behaviour on F20.
>
> But it is just fast now.  In the past I only used yumex when I really
> needed to search for something.  I may be more inclined to use it now.
>
>

It's possible that your change in DE was responsible.  I don't use 
Gnome, but by all reports it's a resource hog, and Xfce is much more 
light weight, and that might make the difference.