Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

[Steven Stern]

On 09/01/2011 04:11 PM, Alan Cox 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
> 
> Alan


Here's my desktop, using XFCE and Avant Window Navigator.  I stopped
using Gnome Shell not because I don't like it but because it's unstable
on my system.

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/el89OuwhilZBUiv4E62nkA?feat=directlink

-- 
-- Steve