I just installed and used XFCE4 to replace Gnome desktop. Works fine on SL7. Not sure how CENTOS8 will turn out.

-- 
James Pulver
CLASSE Computer Group
Cornell University

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From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Larry Linder <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 2, 2020 10:18 AM
To: Nico Kadel-Garcia
Cc: Akemi Yagi; Franchisseur Robert; Liste SL-users FNAL
Subject: Re: SL6 firefox upgrade.

After a installation of Cent8 we could not run our cad SW and a lot of
other applications that ran fine under 6 & 7.
We reformatted the disk and put box back into service as SL 6.9.

Have been evaluating other Linux Unix systems replace our SL 5.11, 6.9,
7.6 systems.  Genome desktop is trash.
If you consider the number of mouse click it takes to do anything - it
one of the big time wasters and a candadate for repetative motion
complaints.

I would never recommend RH 8 or it derivitives.

Try the chinese desk top and you will see how smooth and easy it is to
get thing done.

15 years ago I gave up on Fedora as if you had a complaint or
constructive criticism - The kids shot the messanger.  And that is how
crap happens.

Larry Linder

On Thu, 2020-10-01 at 20:37 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 8:19 PM Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 4:34 PM Franchisseur Robert
> > <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > after firefox update from firefox-68.12.0-1 to firefox-78.3.0-1 there
> > > is no sound.
> > >
> > > --
> > >                  Best regards,
> > >                                Robert FRANCHISSEUR
> >
> > A CentOS user is reporting the same:
>
> Sounds like time to update to SL 8 or CentOS 8. Is there any
> compelling reason to continue such an obsolete operating system,
> especially for such complex software as a modern web browser?