On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Alan Cox <alan(a)lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Would someone please tell me.. Why is F-15 such a mess..? The
worst
> thing is the jumbled up desktop..
The great thing about Linux is that the desktop is not wired into the
system. The great thing about Fedora is it supports and packages many
desktops.
So
yum groupinstall Xfce
exit to the graphical login, set the desktop type in the options to Xfce,
log back in.
Xfce is a traditional desktop, complete with sharp edges you can cut
yourself on rather than a padded cell like Gnome 3. It is actually more
configurable than Gnome 2.x in many ways as well as a lot faster and
lighter on memory.
If you really want everything to just get out of the way and don't need
the user niceness stuff you might also want to look at Enlightement
yum search enlightenment
And then there is also KDE, not as lightweight as XFCE, but very
powerful and very configurable.
A lot of people dismissed KDE after the rough time of version 4.0, in
a similar way that Gnome3 is now losing its userbase. But today KDE4
is a beautiful, stable and very user-friendly DE. I guess Gnome3 will
get back on its feet in the next couple of Fedora versions, but atm
KDE is the most polished environment available. ;-)
:-)
Marko