Hi again,

Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@???> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Steve Litt <slitt@???> writes:
>
>> [...], we can have an unofficial poll to see how many Devuan users
>> regularly use Gnome as a desktop environment.
>
> Not for for at least two decades.
>
> Started out on X11 sessions using a pre-configured .xinitrc, IIRC. Used
> AIX' CDE for a little while and switched back to plain X11 sessions.
>
> Used GNOME for a while when I first installed Debian 'hamm'. Didn't
> like how it accumulated bloat in newer versions and jumped to KDE. That
> suffered from the same problem, so I went on the Xfce. I stayed with
> that for a long time (like 15 years of so) until I figured I didn't need
> a desktop environment. Just a GUI would do for me. At the same time I
> also felt an inexplicable urge to try a tiling window manager. I picked
> i3-wm. A bit later I decided to try out wayland with sway as a mostly
> drop-in replacement for i3-wm.
> One at least one of my machines I don't even have xwayland installed.
>
> Works for me, for now. Your experience may vary.

Forgot to mention, I'm not using a display manager anymore either. Used
to use slim but now I've configured my ~/.profile to start a GUI session
when I log in on tty1 :-)
The other five tty's just give me a console login.
--
Olaf Meeuwissen