I'm going to get a new (used) laptop soon. Which Debian release should I install at this stage of the release cycle, Jessie or Stretch? My current laptop runs Wheezy.
(I want as few bugs as possible, but also dislike the idea of having to upgrade in the near future.)
Also, is Xfce still the lightweight desktop of choice?
@stefanieschulte Sounds pretty solid. I'm strongly partial to Windowmaker: stable, usable, gets out of the way, changes very, very little.
I've also got a couple of decades with it, which may factor into the decision.
@stefanieschulte @dredmorbius @gcupc Right. I've tried tiling WMs from time to time, and like the concept in theory. I find it difficult in practice. WM starts approaching the concept for me:
* I bind hotkeys to commonly-invoked apps: terminal, editor, mailer, etc.
* I bind a hotkey to "maximise hight of currently focused window", which is virtually /always/ what I want to do for a terminal. Pop it from 25 rows to the max that will fit.
@gcupc @dredmorbius @stefanieschulte A few other bindings for workspace nav and the like.
There's a pinnable windowlist which is good for walking through open whatever.
Other than that, the styling is unobtrusive and can largely be ignore. You can easily arrange windows into nonoverlapping locations and switch between them with either alt-tab or mouse focus, which is good for most use-cases for me.
Of GNOME, KDE, xfce, etc., my fave.
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