08-11-2020, 07:58 AM
(08-10-2020, 09:52 AM)wdt Wrote: >Fedora Gnome feels heavy on resources. I wish they ported xfce instead.
I don't know why you would think you are "stuck" on gnome?
Yes, it may be well polished but there are perhaps 20 other window managers out there (wm)
And, if you are using a display manager (sddm, lightdm, gdm, xdm) there will be a chooser menu,
so you can select if you want plasma, lxde, xfce, icewm, black box, next step, mate, fvwm and on .....
open box is quite light, the wm of puppy amongst others
I have tried using wm in the past and I used an openbox wm and i3 for a while. They are ok except that I am not sure if I can find my way to tweak it as a productivity environment.
I was checking out wm again and I saw about sway, which seems interesting. I could use it, I will check out its wiki and see what it is about. I am guessing with sway or i3 I will not have a network manager or bluetooth connection. I hope to have a workaround for them. Also, I need an email client for my gmail account. Emacs would be a solution for that.
The usual problem i faced with wm is lack of enough documentation. I see some information on the sway website but I doubt it will be enough. Do you have other recommendation to lookfor information/help?
Update: I switched back to Debian Bullseye Gnome again after a while . I am having difficulty in choosing one as Fedora seemed very heavy on resources. Same for Bullseye now, I setup my Gmail account and evolution calendar is chewing up my processors. I missed that with Fedora Workstation.