{"id":8567,"date":"2019-02-22T22:52:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T05:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=8567"},"modified":"2019-02-22T22:52:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T05:52:30","slug":"changing-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=8567","title":{"rendered":"Changing Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/HP-Slimdesk-Linux-Screenshot-2019-02-22-21-39-53-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/HP-Slimdesk-Linux-Screenshot-2019-02-22-21-39-53-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/HP-Slimdesk-Linux-Screenshot-2019-02-22-21-39-53-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/HP-Slimdesk-Linux-Screenshot-2019-02-22-21-39-53-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/HP-Slimdesk-Linux-Screenshot-2019-02-22-21-39-53.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I really like the Cinnamon desktop that is on the EPEL repos for CentOS.  Nice eye candy but it is a beast to run.  I ran system monitor and CPU spiked to 80%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you give it enough horsepower it does look great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But eye candy is not really needed on a server.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the stock image<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/HP-Slimdesk-Linux-Screenshot-2019-02-22-21-38-22-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/HP-Slimdesk-Linux-Screenshot-2019-02-22-21-38-22-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/HP-Slimdesk-Linux-Screenshot-2019-02-22-21-38-22-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/HP-Slimdesk-Linux-Screenshot-2019-02-22-21-38-22-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/HP-Slimdesk-Linux-Screenshot-2019-02-22-21-38-22.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not much difference visually but performance wise it is better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May go even lighter like mate or xfce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another thing I finally could continue on was the rebuild of a restore partition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, I think the physical disk is to far gone for data recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even SMART warns it is going to fail within 24 hours, but I think it has already done that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"506\" height=\"83\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-22_21-48-47.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-22_21-48-47.png 506w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-22_21-48-47-300x49.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I think if I had email configured properly on this machine I could have recovered data sooner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co worker Carl showed me how to use grammarly to check my publications.  Will start doing that with at least free versions, especially for long posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really like the Cinnamon desktop that is on the EPEL repos for CentOS. Nice eye candy but it is a beast to run. I ran system monitor and CPU spiked to 80%. 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