Quoting Narcis Garcia (informatica@???):

> I understand perfectly current situation with Gnome and Systemd.
> But if I cannot offer Gnome 3 to desktop users (or a fork as Mate was
> for Gnome 2), Devuan is not an option for me in this area.

Or you could give Xfce a try. It's rather nice.

But whatever's your cuppa.

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