Thunar (Xfce?s file manager) and Mousepad (Xfce?s text editor) are both very good. No need to spread FUD?
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Originally posted by leif81 View PostWhat a farce. Lets change the default desktop without looking at the stats, but then offer to use the stats later to determine if it was a good choice. Thanks for the goodwill Debian.All opinions are my own not those of my employer if you know who they are.
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Originally posted by bkor View PostCinnamon is a fork of GNOME 3. It doesn't magically have more or less requirements than GNOME 3.
Cinnamon is a complete fork of about the 3.6 release of Gnome3. It is no longer a shell on top of it anymore. And I can almost guarantee it won't depend on Systemd.
P.S. Xfce is a really great DE as well, I was just mentioning something with a bit more up-to-date compatibility. I use Xfce and Cinnamon on and off, myself.
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Originally posted by leif81 View PostWhat a farce. Lets change the default desktop without looking at the stats, but then offer to use the stats later to determine if it was a good choice. Thanks for the goodwill Debian.
XFCE is much better than GNOME 3 for Debian's default - it's much more light-weight (in terms of CPU, GPU, RAM, and HDD consumption), it works on legacy systems, its interface is much more familiar to Windows and Mac users, and it doesn't update often. Not updating often is important for debian, since they're not a cutting edge distro (even sid is a bit on the old side) and they look for stability, which XFCE is. I don't get the impression GNOME 3 is a buggy mess anymore, but it still updates often enough to be stable Fallback mode basically is XFCE but incredibly limited.
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Originally posted by stqn View PostThunar (Xfce?s file manager) and Mousepad (Xfce?s text editor) are both very good. No need to spread FUD?
On my laptop, I personally use Thunar, because its just barely good enough; I don't do enough file related tasks to need something better, but I've been very close to switching to something else.
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Originally posted by stqn View PostThunar (Xfce?s file manager) and Mousepad (Xfce?s text editor) are both very good. No need to spread FUD?
Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostThunar and Mousepad work well but that's just because they're annoyingly simple. Both of them are (or were, until pretty recently) like Explorer and Notepad in Windows XP, which is really embarrassing for linux users. In most ways, vi is better than Mousepad. It took way too long for Thunar to get tabbed browsing.
On my laptop, I personally use Thunar, because its just barely good enough; I don't do enough file related tasks to need something better, but I've been very close to switching to something else.
Seriously, if we are going to be elitist, the CLI is usually more powerful for any kind of complex file management. Thunar is supposed to just be a simple tool, and user friendly (this includes newbie friendly). I agree that the tabbed interface is almost a must have, though, but I find Nautilus to have superfluous features I never use, for example.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostThunar and Mousepad work well but that's just because they're annoyingly simple. Both of them are (or were, until pretty recently) like Explorer and Notepad in Windows XP, which is really embarrassing for linux users. In most ways, vi is better than Mousepad. It took way too long for Thunar to get tabbed browsing.
Mousepad can syntax-highlight source code and is really easy to use (unlike vi). It is IMO a perfect default editor to open text documents.
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