At Fri, 2 Nov 2018 15:58:06 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On 11/2/18 3:35 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
At Fri, 2 Nov 2018 14:02:56 -0600 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/rhel_deprecates_kde/
That's still several years in the future, of course.
I use Mate on all of my machines rather than Gnome or KDE and I'm sure many of you fine folks do the same.
But it's interesting nonetheless.
I one of the few (?) people who use "none of the above" (meaning all of the "modern" desktop managers). I use fvwm in MWM mode and have a Tcl/Tk coded "menu manager" program. My screen looks almost like a 1980s vintage VaxStation 3000 running DECWindows. Right now on C6 and using as little of Gnome2 as it will let me (one panel). File Manage set to /bin/true. No "start" menu nonsense, no desktop icons either, just a fvwm iconbox for running programs and a 10 element Workspace switcher. And yes, I use actual xterms.
Indeed, my alternatives to Mate would/may be one the these. Interestingly, some people when they see my screen (I'm sysadmin supporting a couple of Departments, about 300 people) ask "what Linux distribution do you have". I have to explain that that is Mate desktop environment... and it is actually FreeBSD, not Linux I run on my workstation. I don't know, it sounds like even people who are quite familiar with Linux to even ask that question, are not that familiar that that is the Desktop Environment for X11 that mostly defines "look and feel". World is different from what it was a decade ago ;-)
Yeah, there are very few of us that completely skipped MS-DOS/MS-Windows/MacOS-Clasic and *never* used a graphical file manager or any of the eye-candy that people now believe is "standard" or "normal". I went from VMS on a VT<whatever> to a VAXStation 2000 to a VAXStation 3000, to DECStation 5000, to Linux, with some time spent on CP/M-68K and OS-9/68000, as well as SunOS, IRIX, etc. *I* have never owned a machine running any verison of MS-Windows (I did have a box that dual booted MS-DOS and Linux).
Valeri