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Subject: Re: GNOME3 and nvidia-driver
From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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On 25 November 2014 at 09:53, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Switch to Mate? ;-)
>
> I'll be doing this shortly, so it's not entirely facetious. After some time
> with Gnome3 on Linux, I switched to Mate and have been very happy with it.
> (Mate is a fork of Gnome2.) Cinnamon is another option. It is GTK3 based,
> but retains the customisability of Gnome2. I have only very limited
> experience with it.

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. I've decided to try out Mate
after seeing the _huge_ pile of ports that Gnome3 brings in. The best
thing is that Mate works out of the box, and I've got it running now.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>