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Gnome 2 or MATE based desktops give a good user experience, and are lighter, being the latest Fedora MATE our first option for Linux Desktops. To disabe animations in mate 1.6 in order to make it faster, open dconf-editor and go to org > mate > marco > general. Check "reduced-resources".
flexvdi guest tools
flexvdi-guest-tools provide:
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