Originally posted by Ray54
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I can literally say that I tried them all (if they were in the ubuntu repo).
all the non-compositing desktops were either unstable or woefully behind on features unless all you want is app-launching.
i finally bit the bullet last year and switched to compositing desktop because windows don't update well without it.
the GUI performance impact is visible even with all effects and animations disabled.
KDE was broken and DOA, i don't care if it was KDE's or distro's fault.
I used Cinnamon a few months because I want my bloody panels. but it's power mgmt. wasn't stable for my rig (they should just copy GNOME's).
1/10 times my laptop went to sleep it wouldn't wake up and I was losing work. Their VPN icon update bug has been broken for YEARS.
I use GNOME now cause it's the most stable of the compositing bunch (which isn't saying much),
but i was cursing all the way. It took me a while to find all the extensions to just implement basic panel features (icons, weather, legacy-systray-icons).
No compositing desktop works well in a virtual machine, so you still need non-compositing fallback.
God forgive me, my windows 7 desktop at work is more stable than linux!
It's all moot anyways, since either browser: Firefox or Chrome brings every desktop to their knees/crashes, windows and linux alike.
Since I can count on nobody, clearly the only solution to this problem is for me to fork my own desktop!
brb
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