F15 GNU

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu May 26 09:05:27 UTC 2011


On Thu, 26 May 2011 01:40:40 -0700
Mike Dwiggins <mike at azdwiggins.com> wrote:

> In short the GNU developers have finally created a stinker fully 
> equivalent to Windows 7!  The monster that was Windows 7 finally made it 
> able to convince my Wife to go to Fedora 14 with GNU!
> 
> Now I am going to have to explore KDE and some of the other Desktop 
> environments.
> 
> I wonder if in their attempts to force everyone to use suspend (just to 
> pick one example) totally ignore the fact that some of us HAVE to exist 
> in a Dual Boot world due to you know little things like OUR JOBS!

Xfce4 is probably where you want to look if you like the general feed of
gtk and the UI style while not being treated like an idiot and having
control of the system.

It also has the advantage of being much much faster, using a lot less
memory and of restoring and keeping your session state properly.

Alan


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