On 2020-02-22, druck  wrote:
> On 22/02/2020 20:19, Mike Easter wrote:
>> bob prohaska wrote:
>>>   after reboot the desktop is now Gnome, not LXDE
>>
>> DW says the RPi DE is still Pixel, which wp describes as a 'derivative'
>> of LXDE and OpenBox, which is how my RPi's DE comes across to me.
>>
>> RPi site says that the buster desktop's appearance has been tweaked a
>> bit to make it flatter.
>
> If you want something a bit more sophisticated and less flat, I
> recommend the MATE desktop. It's uses a little more resources than
> Pixel/LXDE, but nowhere near that of Gnome.

Chiming in on this sub-thread to agree about MATE and also to suggest
XFCE4 as a possible DE alternative. I'm using it on my latest Raspbian
Lite install and couldn't be happier.

XFCE has been one of my goto DEs on any machine where a tiling window
manager isn't appropriate and KDE is overkill feature wise, but I was
a bit concerned about performance on the Pi. The version on Raspbian
repos isn't the latest one, so it still relies a bit less on GTK3 and
performance is lightning fast. I couldn't be happier, especially as
the features it provides are worth it. In the future though, as they
fully migrate to GTK3 it could change.

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