Display Manager and Desktop Environment
Hello All
This is more of a discussion point rather than an error question, ive noticed since workstation 7.3 that gdm and gnome have been a bit buggy with nvidia proprietary drivers.
Has anyone switched out their DE or display manager on their desktop either just for personal taste or functionality, im planning to use epel to get xfce running with lightdm as they are my preference.
Whats your preference ?
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Red Hat
Guru
7257 points
I like MATE Desktop, which is also in EPEL.
I'm actually running an obscure setup with the MATE settings daemon on OpenBox window manager and tint2 panel and compton compositor - it's what all the cool Arch Linux elitists ran back in 2009 - but MATE meets all my needs now so I've gone back to plain MATE on all my other systems, no need for this OpenBox setup anymore.
One day when I reload my work RHEL laptop I'll use plain MATE on that too.
I don't have any systems with nVidia graphics though, all either Intel graphics laptops or AMD graphics desktops.
Red Hat
Guru
7257 points
I haven't run Arch for a long time but I do like it. pacman is easily the best package manager out there. The community is generally really friendly and helpful, not actually elitist at all :) Their wiki is fantastic!
The granular control Arch gives you was a double-edged sword back then. It would allow you to learn how all distro components worked at a deep level and how they worked together, but it also forced you to live and breathe that, and spend like a quarter of your computing time maintaining your computer when updates broke something. I've heard it's a bit better now.
You sound like you're already well on the way to that certification!
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