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[Author/submitter here, FWIW] > Cinnamon is definitely the goat DE and it's not even close imo. Nah. Vertical taskbars are kinda broken. It can't even displa

[Author/submitter here, FWIW] > Cinnamon is definitely the goat DE and it's not even close imo. Nah. Vertical taskbars are kinda broken. It can't even display status icons in >1 column. On widescreens this is necessary functionality and it can't do it. It's huge and sluggish because it's based on GNOME Shell, so it's not so much a "desktop" as a window manager with an embedded Javascript runtime which is interpreting on the fly a poor ripoff of a phone UI badly adapted to desktop use. Then a (very clever) third party has hacked _that_ to make it resemble Windows Vista or something. I'd rather just have something that was written directly to implement that UI, in proper compiled code like Thompson and Ritchie intended... such as Xfce, which even does the Vista taskbar if you install the "docklike taskbar" plugin. It's about one tenth of the size, and GNOME has, genuinely, something like 50x as many outstanding bugs because of the terrible way it was implemented.

resource_waste 3y ago
XFCE just isnt as nice. It lacks many of the customizations or 1 click access to features.
- lproven 3y ago
  Be specific! That's not a useful contribution. I find it much NICER to use than Cinnamon, so I want to know what you don't like about it. In the past I've found people criticise tiny trivial things that you can fix in 30sec with about half a dozen mouse clicks, but of course you need to know where and when to look. I ran Cinnamon as a daily driver for 5 months of irritation and annoyance, finding multiple pain points that could not be fixed, from the lack of multiple columns in status icons on upwards. So I switched to Xfce and put up with the lack of fractional scaling, which for me is the only thing that Cinnamon delivers -- and it can't do different scaling factors on 2 displays, so it's useless on the only machine where I need that feature.

resource_waste 3y ago

XFCE just isnt as nice. It lacks many of the customizations or 1 click access to features.

lproven 3y ago
Be specific! That's not a useful contribution. I find it much NICER to use than Cinnamon, so I want to know what you don't like about it. In the past I've found people criticise tiny trivial things that you can fix in 30sec with about half a dozen mouse clicks, but of course you need to know where and when to look. I ran Cinnamon as a daily driver for 5 months of irritation and annoyance, finding multiple pain points that could not be fixed, from the lack of multiple columns in status icons on upwards. So I switched to Xfce and put up with the lack of fractional scaling, which for me is the only thing that Cinnamon delivers -- and it can't do different scaling factors on 2 displays, so it's useless on the only machine where I need that feature.