At Fri, 2 Nov 2018 15:58:06 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at 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 at 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 > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services heller at deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services