From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SgLJJ-0000zd-1y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:38:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD810E0741; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:38:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5DEE044C for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:36:45 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgsKAG6Zu09soXB6/2dsb2JhbABEsnYDgRiBCIIVAQEEATocKAsLNBIUJTeICQW6CYsIWoFEgjxiA40+h1yFX4g6gViDBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="191590820" Received: from 108-161-112-122.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([108.161.112.122]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 17 Jun 2012 15:36:44 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:36:35 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:36:35 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment Message-ID: <20120617193634.GA30129@waltdnes.org> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 3d25b557-e6fb-4d22-bce7-106c87edeb4e X-Archives-Hash: d1ec02771075ef8f4fa89248d9b3bde3 On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote > In my humble opinion, you should use whatever you actually like. You > don't like GNOME? Then don't use it; and if you used it before and > don't like the new version, either get involver to get it "fixed" (for > whatever defintion of "fixed" you want), fork it (although maybe you > should first try Unity, MATE, or Cinnamon before), or go to another > desktop. My attitude towards KDE and GNOME is "the pox on both their houses"; I don't run desktops, I run applications. I use ICEWM with my most-used apps in the launch menu and launchbar. "Desktop" users moving to LXDE or XFCE is perfectly understandable. -- Walter Dnes