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The truth about Linux?
voidmain:
http://www.xfce.org/
preacher:
quote:Originally posted by Faust:
My twelve cents:
About a week ago I used nothing but KDE, gnome and IceWM because they looked familiar to me, being used to windows guis. All three are pretty good but now Im using enlightenment when I want looks, blackbox when i want speed and a terminal when I want to try and learn more... IMHO start with KDE, gnome and/or icewm until you are at least a little settled in, then choose which manager you want out of all o' them. :D I did notice that iceWM came on my mandrake distribution (and probably a lot of other distributions as well)with a mac theme... no idea which os it was a clone of because I havent used macs often but if you recognise it, you might want to use that (make you feel at home ;) )
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Recently I installed Mandrake 9.0 on my 200mhz, and here is the deal. A lot of people are hard on Mandrake because of the speed thing. Ive found the real problem to be with the window managers kde and gnome. My primary window manager on this box is windowmaker, and programs are quick to open. The same is true when I use blackbox. Dont get me wrong, windowmaker and blackbox are by no means pretty, or as easy to use, but they work better on slow machines.
Faust:
I have the exact same problem on my 1300, gnome especially. Gnome is WAY too slow, especially compared to blackbox etcetera.
Calum:
windowmaker is alright! i wouldn't go so far as to say it's as unpretty as blackbox.
Faust:
unpretty isnt a word newspeak boy :D
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