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> Hacker News is full of people who think XFCE is the height of desktop experience. This is fundamentally different than apple’s core fan base who seem to like

> Hacker News is full of people who think XFCE is the height of desktop experience. This is fundamentally different than apple’s core fan base who seem to like any change just for the sake of change. that statement seems perhaps too harsh to both HN crowd and Apple's core fan base, I spend more time on HN than I care to admit and I can assure you that I do not like XFCE desktop experience at all, my desktop is running Debian 10 with Cinnamon on it, but UX is not something that I'd ever list as one of top 5 features of this setup. Similarly I've been using Apple laptops for about 14 years now and do consider myself a part of "core fan base", for the record I hate the butterfly keyboard, despise touchbar with a passion, and am utterly disgusted by the decision to remove MagSafe chargers. To quote great Dr Tobias Funke - there are dozens of us.

SllX 6y ago
Nah, I watch most of the WM-related threads because it's more interesting to me than I am willing to admit in public life. XFCE gets trotted out generally any time GNOME, KDE, MATE or Cinnamon does, but especially in the case of the former two. There's usually a cadre of MATE and Cinnamon reps as well, of which you might as well consider yourself at least an honorary member at this point. StumpWM, i3 and dwm are also commonly brought up contenders as peak desktop Linux. If it doesn't apply to you, it doesn't apply to you.
- ceocoder 6y ago
  I was perhaps a bit unclear in my post - I use Cinnamon and am thankful to those who made it, however I don't think that or XFCE or MATE or KDE are the "height of desktop experience", they get the job done. In my opinion height of desktop experience was Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - I still miss workspaces, and TotalSpaces2 is a valiant effort but less likely to work with each new update.
- michaelmrose 6y ago
  Maybe i3 wouldn't be peak desktop Linux if other environments realized that virtual desktops extending across all monitors is bad design.
- wayneftw 6y ago
  I haven’t seen an actual complaint about what’s wrong with XFCE. Simple minimalism is certainly preferable to whatever macOS can be described as by many, sure. I don’t see a problem with that.

SllX 6y ago

Nah, I watch most of the WM-related threads because it's more interesting to me than I am willing to admit in public life. XFCE gets trotted out generally any time GNOME, KDE, MATE or Cinnamon does, but especially in the case of the former two. There's usually a cadre of MATE and Cinnamon reps as well, of which you might as well consider yourself at least an honorary member at this point. StumpWM, i3 and dwm are also commonly brought up contenders as peak desktop Linux. If it doesn't apply to you, it doesn't apply to you.

ceocoder 6y ago
I was perhaps a bit unclear in my post - I use Cinnamon and am thankful to those who made it, however I don't think that or XFCE or MATE or KDE are the "height of desktop experience", they get the job done. In my opinion height of desktop experience was Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - I still miss workspaces, and TotalSpaces2 is a valiant effort but less likely to work with each new update.
michaelmrose 6y ago
Maybe i3 wouldn't be peak desktop Linux if other environments realized that virtual desktops extending across all monitors is bad design.
wayneftw 6y ago
I haven’t seen an actual complaint about what’s wrong with XFCE. Simple minimalism is certainly preferable to whatever macOS can be described as by many, sure. I don’t see a problem with that.