Re: 10.10 users downgrade to 10.04?
Just try the live CD and see for yourself.
XFCE preserves the classic desktop, just like gnome2 and kde3 used to be. It also happens to be lighter than gnome/kde, while remaining friendly.
Nowadays there is a push to destroy the classic desktop experience, and make it more like cell phone/tablet uis, and some even require heavy graphic effects.
LXDE is a good alternative, if your machine has less than 512m or ram.
i5-2500, Asus p8p67le, 8g ddr3, gtx460. Eeepc 701 4g surf.
vm.swappiness=0;noatime,data=writeback;deadline scheduler;preload.
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