“Are you one of those who feel that GNOME is bloated, slow,
unstable, difficult to use and hard to configure?
“Well you are not alone…, it is not actually GNOME
which is to blame for your problems. It is the window manager
currently being shipped with GNOME, called Enlightenment. So what
is wrong with Enlightenment you might ask?… it is designed with
the intention of making it the best/coolest looking, most
configurable out there and with as many fancy bells and whistles as
possible… on a daily basis it means that the window manager
steals a lot of resources from the rest of the system, making the
whole thing kinda slow.
“… the GNOME team is laboring heavily to create smaller and
faster window managers which will integrate easily with GNOME, I
guess you will soon hear names such as wmG, Mosquito and Sawmill,
which are the names on some of these new windowmanagers.”
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