From: lars@beagle-ears.com   
      
   On 2025-12-28, Richard Kettlewell  wrote:   
   >>> I spent quite a while, 2-3 months IIRC, trying to adapt to Gnome 3 (and   
   >>> to adapt it to me). I am quite adaptable, using all of Windows, macOS,   
   >>> Android and desktop Linux regularly, but still didn’t manage to get used   
   >>> to Gnome 3. So MATE it is.   
      
   > On 12/28/25 12:31, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >> My only contact with Gnome 3 is the API.  I don't do much graphics   
   >> programming, and I work in straight C, not C++.  Gnome was the only   
   >> graphics toolkit I could find with C linkages, so it was Hobson's Choice.   
      
   On 2025-12-28, c186282  wrote:   
   >    I did use Centos for a little while - the G3 interface   
   >    was just TERRIBLE. Did manage to get something else   
   >    running on it. They didn't really WANT you to use   
   >    anything but G3 on it though ....   
   >   
   >    Best compromise bet these days is XFCE. Very usable.   
   >    MATE is 'sort of usable' ... I don't HATE it, but   
   >    don't like it either.   
      
   I can never rember which is which. Can you explain in a few words the   
   difference betwen LXDE and XFCE?   
      
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   Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California   
      
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