Here we go again...
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> Exactly who they think they are competing with, and for what, remains unclear.
GNOME2... And it's winning.
Oh come on. Rant about the bad design decisions in GNOME 3.0 all you want, but GNOME 2 sucks in comparison.
I can see why people would prefer KDE or an extremely lightweight desktop environment, but if you use MATE, you're an idiot.
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extremely lightweight desktop environment
give me XFCE4 or give me death!
:torch: :pitchfork: :tangerine:
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give me XFCE4 or give me death!
I used to use XFCE (before GNOME 3 was released). Is it still being maintained? Because there was a time when I thought the developers had abandoned the project.
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but if you use MATE, you're an idiot.
Fighting words right there.
Mate is excellent as a win 7/xp replacement. My mom could figure it out with little to no instruction (the wireless driver for the wlan card was borked in Windows 7 - and after like 4 reinstalls and much shooting of trouble , I gave up. It's fine in w10)
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Is it still being maintained? B
looks like it.
interestingly there was a three year gap between version 4.10 and 4.12.... but it's still in development (if rather slowly)
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interestingly there was a three year gap between version 4.10 and 4.12
Yeah, that's why I thought they abandoned it.
According to the homepage, they even (partially) ported it to Gtk 3.
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LOL. Most of my friends refuse to set up multiple accounts because:
I recently set up multiple chrome users on my machine, so everyone has their own browser profile, etc. There's only my account, though. But pretty much the only thing other family members do on my machine is to use a web browser, so that pretty much solves the problem.
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I recently set up multiple chrome users on my machine, so everyone has their own browser profile, etc.
How is that less work than creating multiple OS user accounts?
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@boomzilla said:
I recently set up multiple chrome users on my machine, so everyone has their own browser profile, etc.
How is that less work than creating multiple OS user accounts?
The setup is probably fairly similar. The use OTOH, is much more convenient. All of us can have our own browsers up at the same time, for instance (though that hasn't happened). It's quicker to just open another browser than to switch users, plus the rest of the stuff that's opened is still there.
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It's quicker to just open another browser than to switch users
Those operations take about the same time on my Debian boxes. What are you using?
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@boomzilla said:
It's quicker to just open another browser than to switch users
Those operations take about the same time on my Debian boxes. What are you using?
A password? More seriously, Kubuntu. Honestly, I've never really tried having multiple user sessions.
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Multiple user sessions is fast on Windows and Linux. As i remember it it was slightly more inconvenient on Linux, but that was mainly because of the fact that locking the computer does not allow others to log on.. (you need to switch explicitly as I remember)
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It's by definition more inconvenient for me because all the stuff I had open goes away. Now I have to switch back instead of just looking at a different window. Or even having something up on one monitor (like a recipe) while someone else uses the other.
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As i remember it it was slightly more inconvenient on Linux, but that was mainly because of the fact that locking the computer does not allow others to log on.. (you need to switch explicitly as I remember)
Depends. If the reason for multiple accounts is more about making it easier to keep your own stuff organized the way you like it, and not so much about lack of trust, Linux has the nice property of letting you switch instantly between active virtual consoles using Ctrl-Alt-F7, Ctrl-Alt-F8 etc. So once you've done the initial Switch Users to get you back to the display manager and logged into the second session, bouncing between active sessions is super-quick; certainly much quicker than Windows-L + click + password.
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locking the computer does not allow others to log on..
It always did allow switching, because only the one console (virtual terminal) was locked, so you could CtrlAltFn to another. However until few years back the display managers and screen lockers did not have the switch option, so the second user had to log in in text mode and
startx. But now there are new session and switch session buttons like on Windows.
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locking the computer does not allow others to log on.
Xscreensaver has had a "new login" button in the unlock dialog for ages.
Xfce Desktop Environment
