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XFCE is slowly dying, and I think the issues are a symptom of this. The file manager, for a very long time, had a reproducible issue (>20% of the time) where m
by pizza234 9y ago
XFCE is slowly dying, and I think the issues are a symptom of this.
The file manager, for a very long time, had a reproducible issue (>20% of the time) where moving a file would cause a crash; based on the Ubuntu bug tracker, took an year and half to fix, and it was (appropriately) marked as critical.
It's clearly lacks development resources (and I also personally question the development quality).
I still use XUbuntu, but I think the future for low-resource machines will be LUbuntu (lowest power) and MATE (low power). MATE is also well funded, well organized, and very configurable.
- apple4ever 9y agoI absolutely love MATE, even for high power machines.
- sampo 9y agoThe Gnome file manager (Nautilus) works just fine with the Xfce desktop as well. I use the Xubuntu desktop, but I use the Gnome apps instead of the Xfce apps.
- pizza234 9y agoIt does, but it's a hack, as there are integration problems. Thunar is still tightly integrated with the desktop, so if one uses an alternative file manager, operation like copying from the desktop and pasting into the (alternative) file manager won't have any effect.