From: "Samuel Banya" <sbanya@fastmail.com>
To: "Emanuel Berg" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Poll: best hackable window manager or DE for Emacs-loving freedom activists
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:48:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2aa8aa7-ce6c-4377-8c8d-dbb054fc551d@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmrfbh27.fsf@yahoo.com>
Gnome is probably the worst DE I have ever used in my entire life. Not only is it just bloated, but it just wants to be MacOSX so badly, and I don't even like MacOSX that much and prefer Linux.
I would stay away honestly.
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021, at 8:08 PM, Po Lu wrote:
> "Jorge P. de Morais Neto" <jorge+list@disroot.org <mailto:jorge%2Blist@disroot.org>> writes:
>
> > I have now reconsidered---I want a hackable keyboard-driven WM or DE.
> > I'll keep GNOME installed as plan B for difficulties with the hacker WM.
> > Also, once in a while I will use GNOME just to preserve useful knowledge
> > for assisting unskilled users.
>
> Is there any particular reason GNOME doesn't suit your needs? GNOME is
> hackable, through shell extensions and also Mutter plugins, is part of
> the GNU project, and is in my experience more solid than most of the
> alternatives you mentioned in your poll.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-05 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-04 23:58 Poll: best hackable window manager or DE for Emacs-loving freedom activists Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2021-11-05 0:08 ` Po Lu
2021-11-05 7:42 ` tomas
2021-11-05 8:11 ` Po Lu
2021-11-06 2:04 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-05 8:12 ` Po Lu
2021-11-05 8:18 ` tomas
2021-11-06 2:04 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-06 2:13 ` Jude DaShiell
2021-11-06 7:50 ` tomas
2021-11-06 15:31 ` Samuel Banya
2021-11-05 13:48 ` Samuel Banya [this message]
2021-11-06 2:00 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-06 2:16 ` Po Lu
2021-11-11 11:41 ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2021-11-05 7:40 ` tomas
2021-11-06 2:06 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-05 7:55 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-11-05 8:04 ` Jude DaShiell
2021-11-05 8:33 ` Vegard Vesterheim
2021-11-05 12:51 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-11-06 2:08 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-05 13:45 ` Samuel Banya
2021-11-06 2:09 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-05 13:47 ` Samuel Banya
2021-11-05 13:53 ` Samuel Banya
2021-11-06 2:13 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-06 2:34 ` Samuel Banya
2021-11-06 2:52 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-06 1:58 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-06 6:27 ` Teemu Likonen
2021-11-06 13:57 ` Jude DaShiell
2021-11-07 19:51 ` Jean Louis
2021-11-07 20:28 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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