On 22/02/18 00:03, Liam Proven wrote:
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 14:16:04 +0100 Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com> wrote:
+1
I use XFCE myself and I install it for all my friends because it's really easy to use. I would never ever bother these unexperienced users with a KDE or GNOME desktop.
Personally, I would agree, I guess.
I think GNOME 3 is pretty simple _if_ you do not have previous desktop-computer experience. In some ways it is rather like a smartphone UI.
But if you are used to something Windows-like, well, KDE 5 is very powerful and capable, but it has a lot of weird little features, like having to go through 2 or 3 levels of menu options just to resize a panel -- not only complicated but also unlike Windows.
In my experience KDE5 does not work properly with VirtualBox's OpenGL passthrough, so like GNOME 3 and Cinnamon, I consider it not a good choice for working in VMs.
LXDE is simple, clean and fast, but also deprecated by its own developers, and its replacement, LXQt, is not finished yet.
So IMHO the main choices are:
* Xfce -- clean, simple, highly customisable. * Cinnamon -- attractive, Windows-like, but needs hardware OpenGL support, so not good inside VMs or on old machines. * Maté -- clean, simple, not quite as customisable as Xfce but more than GNOME. Also sits between Xfce and GNOME 3/Cinnamon in hardware requirements.
Everything else (Budgie, Enlightenment, etc.) is either very niche or does not have a clear selling-point. Budgie doesn't do anything that you cannot achieve by customising GNOME 3, Maté or Xfce, for instance. Enlightenment offers a lot of bling but that's about all, and it has not fully moved into the world of compositing desktops, which offer bling of their own.
Enlightenment can have some bling, not crazy wobbly windows or anything but it can do most other things, we might disable it in the default openSUSE builds though. Enlightenment is probably also the only other one in that list that can have mostly working wayland support (In openSUSE this still needs some testing which i'll get to at some point). You can also choose to not have bling if you want. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B