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I just switched from GNOME to XFCE after upgrading my main home machine running Debian. I knew the changes were coming, but didn't think they'd be as bad as the

I just switched from GNOME to XFCE after upgrading my main home machine running Debian. I knew the changes were coming, but didn't think they'd be as bad as they were. The transition has been . . . interesting, but mostly tolerable because I pretty much live in Emacs, Firefox and the terminal. I'm actually kind of liking having way more screensavers than I really need (with XScreenSaver versus whatever the GNOME pared down version was), and having less crud and cruft bogging down my lowly old laptop.

kmm 13y ago
I'm debating going to XFCE too. The only thing I'll miss is extending my desktop with Javascript. I see XFCE has extensions too, but they're in C. I like C, but when I see how many lines a simple CPU frequency plugin needs [0], while a comparable extension for GNOME would only be a few hundred lines... 0: http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-cpufreq-plugin/tree/panel-plugin http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-cpufreq-plugin/tree/...