Greetings!

I thought it might be an interesting feature to see what you, as a Mint Mage, think of the upcoming versions of Mint and your take and critique of how Gnome or KDE relates for MintPPC as mentioned the following pages:

http://maketecheasier.com/gnome-shell-i ... 2011/02/17 and http://maketecheasier.com/kde46-review- ... 2011/02/02

Looking forward to hearing some informative pro-con views!

I don't like Gnome or KDE on these old PowerPC based Macs as these desktop managers use too much CPU/RAM. That's why I prefer LXDE.

Questions from others here:

1. Does that mean that MintPPC is just green-colored LXDE or how is it unique from the others?

2. Will MintPPC/LXDE ever have (optional) any Gnome 4 or Unity type screens or features?

3. If you install Gnome along with Mint, does it affect running Mint any? If you have Gnome installed but mostly run Mint, does the Gnome "bloat" stay only in the hard drive or RAM? Can you log-out of and switch between Mint and Gnome and not take any performance hits?

4. We think trying to fix the video script might lead to Mint crashing when you try to Switch User. When we first installed Mint we got a low resolution screen on our 700mHZ iMac, and followed the advice here to change a video configuration to "nv" which fixed the problem, but now often when you try to Switch User the system crashes, showing werid "bitty" oversized screen like it was trying to switch to 640x480 or even larger. Just wanted to know if you heard of such a problem.

1. Yes, with some patched panel items and a more complete program list. If you install lxde desktop in Debian you will have to add a lot of functionality yourself.

2. You can always run gnome, once you install it. You will have the same look as Linux Mint, once you install the right programs.

3. If you log into a Gnome session it will be slower. If you logout and select Mint-LXDE again, you profit from the faster system again. it does not matter to install all that bloat (provided you have enough hard disk space). Once running Gnome, you will have a slower experience.

4. Switching users crashes the system. I heard this bug before.
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My requirements are:

Pismo-centric
Fast, lightweight WM
Dropbox

The appearance is pretty irrelevant to me.