GNOME woes on the XO / A modest proposal

[Steven Salevan]

I have not, but from what I've read from other XO testers, it's 
considerably faster, hence the opinion-gathering e-mail that I sent.  
I'm going to load it up tonight to see for myself, but both conventional 
and practical wisdom dictate that it'd be eminently speedier and more 
functional than GNOME in its current state.
-Steve Salevan
ssalevan at redhat.com

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Steven Salevan wrote:
>> GNOME may indeed be more familiar to users, but what use is 
>> familiarity if there's no functionality?  At least XFCE can run 
>> comfortably on the limited resources of the XO, allowing us to focus 
>> on the issues that we can indeed address in the limited time we 
>> have.  What do you guys think?
>
> Have you actually tested Xfce on XO to see if it performs better?
>
> Rahul
>