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[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 at 13:03, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Just autostart a panel of your choice, that provides a 'start menu'.
> How about 'fbpanel' with 'systemmenu'? How about 'xfce4-panel' with
> 'applicationsmenu' or 'whiskermenu'?

I have used Ubuntu since it was launched. I have always used the
default desktop.

Also, I now work for SUSE. Its SLED  (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop)
defaults to GNOME 3 and KDE is not in the repos.

I am trying to get used to GNOME 3.

I am trying to find ways to adapt it so I find it usable.

I am failing.

Adding bits of other desktops is not a clean way to proceed. (Also, I
personally _don't_ want a start menu. That was the OP.)

When got this job just over 1 year ago, I tried GNOME 3 again.
Then I tried the following desktops:
* GNOME 3 on SUSE, Fedora & Ubuntu
* KDE 5 on SUSE
* LXDE on Ubuntu, SUSE and Devuan
* Cinnamon on Gecko
* Budgie on Ubuntu
* LXQt on SUSE and Gecko
* Maté on SUSE and Ubuntu
* Xfce on Fedora, SUSE and Ubuntu

Currently, these are my findings:
* GNOME 3 and KDE 5 borderline unusable.
* GNOME 3 can be customised into something a bit better but it makes
it very unstable.
* KDE can't, for me.
* Maté and Cinnamon don't do vertical taskbars at all.
* Cinnamon has other issues: poor stability, can't edit Wifi
connections from the GUI
* Budgie is pointless: it doesn't do anything you can't easily
configure Maté, Xfce or LXDE to do
* LXDE  does vertical taskbars well, but they aren't very customisable
and it's EOL.
* LXQt isn't finished enough to use.

So I am using XFCE on SUSE at work. It does everything I need. Its
sole drawback is minor: I can't pin apps to the taskbar, one of the
*very* few additions to Windows Vista & later that I like.

So, if XFCE works for me, why not just use XFCE? Why try to crowbar
another desktop into being something it isn't?

Corollary: if I switch to XFCE, then why stick with Ubuntu? Why not go
upstream and use Debian, or switch to the distro I use at work every
day, openSUSE (or Gecko, which is to openSUSE what Mint is to Ubuntu)?
Or be lazy and switch to Mint?

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