<html><head></head><body>As huge and bloated as it is, I use Gnome. For remote sessions I use XCFE. But my laptop has ram so it's gnome. <br><br>Years back Enlightenment was the prettiest, most visually appealing DE on the planet. <br><br>A zillion years ago I ran one called tkdesktop. Used tcl/tk to setup everything. Had a picture of a desk with hotspots at file drawers, phone, etc. Can't find it in the archives.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On December 17, 2020 5:29:12 PM EST, William Wylde via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">XFCE is my favorite. KDE second fav. I strongly dislike the unity desktop. <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 2:09 PM Jim Ransone via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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My understanding is that the latest version of KDE Plasma has gotten
pretty close to xfce in terms of minimal processing requirements.<br>
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Jim<br>
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<div>On 10/25/20 3:25 PM, Charles Shapiro
via Ale wrote:<br>
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<div>KDE Plasma on Debian 10.1 "Buster" running in 12 gb on a
slightly vintage Core-I7 MB. No troubles. Upgraded video card
from Nvidia to AMD back in August with minimal hassles. I do a
lot of stuff at the terminal though. In more
resource-constrained environments, I have had good experiences
with XFCE.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:50
PM Colonel Wolf Halton CBA via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(53,28,117)">I
have a System76 desktop machine with PopOS running Gnome
desktop. In my last Kali book, I wrote a chapter about all
the different desktop-installs available for Kali, so I
got to delve into 12 desktops. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(53,28,117)">PopOS
has been painless. No freezes. No muss. No fuss. I also
have Ubuntu with it's stockinstall desktop for an Nfina
NUC studio machine (very quiet and small) where I do much
of my video work, and Ubuntu LTS 2020.04 with Gnome
running on an Nfina tower server that I occasionally log
into directly. The server sounds like a helicopter with
all its fans, so I keep thinking about creating a space
for it in a different house. Haven't quite developed the
cashflow to rent a whole new house for one lonely test
server. In the last 15 years, I wrote 3 books including a
bunch of VM-testing on XFCE Desktop, which is a very light
resource-load. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(53,28,117)">My
suspicion is that the OP's machine has a RAM or GPU
shortage. If your warranty has been expired on the
hardware for more than a couple years, the OS and software
are likely beyond your hardware's capability. </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at
10:19 AM Preston Boyington via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div id="gmail-m_-9022114834637610814gmail-m_5574800735981099224gmail-m_-4648016987095281639__MailbirdStyleContent" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <span style="font-size:10pt">I've been hearing good things
about "Pop! OS" from System76.<br>
<a href="https://pop.system76.com/" target="_blank">https://pop.system76.com/</a></span><br>
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who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t
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10/18/2020 6:42:30 AM, Contact VPV via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:</p>
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<div>I have been using Linux Mint with Cinnamon
Desktop for the past few years as my daily
driver. I am able to get most of the things. But
there are a few times the Cinnamon Desktop just
freezes and crashes while I am in the middle of
some work. This kind of throws me off. I have
tried most of the tricks on the LM forums and
nothing leads me to a proper solution.</div>
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<div>Now that, I am thinking of switching to some
simple and clean desktop that does not crash on
me. I had to use Mac for my work, so I will be
switching between my Mac and Linux on a daily
basis. I had customized my Cinnamon to look and
behave like Mac and was successful to an extent
that I could manage.</div>
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<div>Is there a recommendation for a
distro/desktop that would help me? </div>
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