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tethys

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Registered: 2019-08-13

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[SOLVED]Alternatives to GNOME/X11

For those of you who are using GNOME w X11 and are searching for an alternative desktop, which one would you consider? Bacground here.

As for me, after some research, I think I will opt for Cinnamon for these reasons:
- it is based on Gnome
- relatively high number of users, see here
- compared to Xfce (the third DE preferred by Arch-users), Cinnamon seems more modern

I must mention that I am only familiar with Gnome and Openbox but I would like to hear the opinion of other users forced to leave Gnome.

Last edited by tethys (2025-10-11 06:42:23)

City-busz

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Re: [SOLVED]Alternatives to GNOME/X11

You can use GNOME Flashback. It uses core GNOME components, but still on X11.

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injiniero

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Registered: 2022-04-26

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Re: [SOLVED]Alternatives to GNOME/X11

I'm in that phase right now.
Can anyone who's tried Pantheon or Budgie DEs in ArchLinux give us their opinion?
Cinnamon is also an option, but I don't really like its MS Windows-like look.

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LuxFerre

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Registered: 2010-03-01

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Re: [SOLVED]Alternatives to GNOME/X11

IMO the best is to try it yourself. It doesn't take long to install any window manager/DE on arch and you can keep multiple installed. Might even be a good time to give a tiling WM a chance...

tethys

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Re: [SOLVED]Alternatives to GNOME/X11

Thank you for all your replies.
What I did at the end was to build a desktop myself using Openbox.
Anyhow I did not use many of the Gnome components (like nautilus), so I decided to use a WM with the applications I really need.