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my opinion might be a little dated, because I am currently using deepin, and before that I used xfce for about a year coming from MATE, so I believe the last ti
by gchamonlive 7y ago
my opinion might be a little dated, because I am currently using deepin, and before that I used xfce for about a year coming from MATE, so I believe the last time I used MATE was 18 months ago.
At that time XFCE seemed to me like a bare bones MATE but in a good way. A little less polish here and there, but overall the system seemed to work better, that means less crashes and less fixing.
One thing I missed in XFCE is the way you can set panels in MATE. It has a lot more placement control and if I remember correctly, it had more plugins and they worked better. But apart from that, XFCE felt more solid and performant than MATE.
- benj111 7y agoCrashes? Last time I had a crash was.... Over a decade ago? Not that I've used either of those desktops in years, but any crashes from a desktop seems like a major red flag.
- gchamonlive 7y agothe ecosystem of a desktop comprises the desktop itself and the bundle of software. I can't recall exactly what went wrong, it might even be I messed up something manually, but using MATE that time I remember things not being as stable as when I moved to XFCE, for instance the display configuration app, albeit uglier in XFCE, for me was much more stable. But again I might have messed up configuration the first time around