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SecularMotion

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7. I've been running Fedora with Gnome as desktop for about 5-6 years now

Reply to ballreward (Original post)

Wed Dec 14, 2011, 11:29 AM

Dec 2011

I like what they're doing with Gnome 3 but I find it awkward to move between the applications and open windows screens. I read an article about Linus Torvalds switching to Xfce

http://digitizor.com/2011/08/04/linus-torvalds-ditches-gnome-for-xfce/

I tried Xfce and have using it for a few months now. I use 4 desktops - one for web and email, another for ebooks, another for film and music collections, and the last for file and system management. It's much easier to navigate between running applications and open windows.

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