I started my Linux experience with Ubuntu, and the first thing to turn
me off of Ubuntu was Gnome.

I temporarily tried Debian's version of Gnome, used Mate for a while.

Now with Devuan I've been using Cinnamon, which I understand has Gnome
dependencies. I have been playing with a couple different window
managers, and could probably be convinced to try xfce or lxde if
necessary.

Bracham

On Mon, 2025-06-23 at 08:32 +0000, Erik Christiansen via Dng wrote:
> On 22.06.25 18:59, Steve Litt wrote:
> > But maybe, more to the point, we can have an unofficial poll to see
> > how many Devuan users regularly use Gnome as a desktop environment.
>
> Not here, on any machine.
>
> TBT, I just use the install default, currently xfce on beowulf. The
> laptop has an older lxde, and I can't tell the difference - they all
> seem identical to me. (I have 'em autostart 4 xterms, one with mutt,
> and
> roam the others, vimming 'n whatnot. They all run firefox, xpdf, and
> kicad just the same, so how would you know?)
>
> The only observed nicety is Applications->office->dictionary on xfce.
> Ah, it's xfce4-dict. Maybe I could just  install it on lxde if that's
> what turns
> up next install.
>
> Erik
>
>
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