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I originally quit Ubuntu because I didn't like Unity ... Gnome is great, I can live with KDE but now I'm moving towards even lighter solutions. I won't miss Unity at all!

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>KDE but now I'm moving towards even lighter solutions.

Gnome3 won't be a good move from Plasma5.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5l39tz/linux_distros...

What other lighter solutions are you using?

I'm personally using a tiling window manager (StumpWM, in my case, but dwm & i3 are both nice too). It feels, in every way, like the future of desktop interaction. And it's a lot lighter-weight than the GNOME desktop.

Doesn't do as much, granted, but isn't that kinda the point?

I've got XFCE installed but I'm working on learning RatPoison (a tiling window manager that doesn't use the mouse). It's a bit of a learning curve, so depending on what I'm working on, I switch between them (for now).

It's also a bit more of a pain to run multiple monitors with RatPoison and I've become well acquainted with reorganizing my screen configurations using the console commands to xrandr.

I also should have noted that I switched back to Xubuntu from Linux Mint.

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