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YES. I often play around with different desktops (xmonad <3) but I always end up in XFCE. In the past I end up in Gnome 2, but now XFCE is my all purpose deskt

by talles 13y ago

YES. I often play around with different desktops (xmonad <3) but I always end up in XFCE. In the past I end up in Gnome 2, but now XFCE is my all purpose desktop. I don't really like KDE 4, Gnome 3 or Unity (hey it's my opnion, mmkay). XFCE is the big guy left. The others feel exotic, new or just not stable enough (like cinnamon). XFCE seems a perfect match for Debian.

Hinrik 13y ago
If you always ended up in GNOME 2 (like I did), perhaps you should give MATE a try. It's stable and continues right where GNOME 2 left off.
- iluvuspartacus 13y ago
  Combine Mate with Compiz (you have to grab it from Sid though as there is not a maintainer anymore). Flipping between windows should be a mindless gesture and that's what that a config of the above allows.
fein 13y ago
I've been using xfce since I started in on Ubuntu. KDE and Gnome were too fat, and lets not even bother with wasting breath insulting Unity. The only thing I've ever enjoyed more than xfce is custom WM setups, but that's going pretty far down the "lean" route. If xfce can run smooth on a first gen 1.6ghz eeepc, it will be fine for anything else.
zem 13y ago
i use xfce + xmonad. they play together very nicely.
nawitus 13y ago
I switched to LXDE after years of XFCE. Seems faster and does everything I need well. Worth a look.
- a3n 13y ago
  I switched to LXDE instead of XFCE from the impending Unity that Ubuntu was going to give me. XFCE had historically been my go-to lightweight, but when I tried it a couple years ago it "felt" a little heavy and a little slow compared to LXDE. Actually Lubuntu vs Xubuntu. I may give XFCE a try again when I move upstream to Debian. That'll be sometime this year I think.
- slacka 13y ago
  Agreed. LXDE is my favorite light desktop. I just hope that in the migration from GTK to qt, they manage to keep the memory footprint and CPU resource usage as low as it has always been.

by talles 13y ago

Hinrik 13y ago

If you always ended up in GNOME 2 (like I did), perhaps you should give MATE a try. It's stable and continues right where GNOME 2 left off.

iluvuspartacus 13y ago
Combine Mate with Compiz (you have to grab it from Sid though as there is not a maintainer anymore). Flipping between windows should be a mindless gesture and that's what that a config of the above allows.

fein 13y ago

I've been using xfce since I started in on Ubuntu. KDE and Gnome were too fat, and lets not even bother with wasting breath insulting Unity. The only thing I've ever enjoyed more than xfce is custom WM setups, but that's going pretty far down the "lean" route. If xfce can run smooth on a first gen 1.6ghz eeepc, it will be fine for anything else.

zem 13y ago

i use xfce + xmonad. they play together very nicely.

nawitus 13y ago

I switched to LXDE after years of XFCE. Seems faster and does everything I need well. Worth a look.

a3n 13y ago
I switched to LXDE instead of XFCE from the impending Unity that Ubuntu was going to give me. XFCE had historically been my go-to lightweight, but when I tried it a couple years ago it "felt" a little heavy and a little slow compared to LXDE. Actually Lubuntu vs Xubuntu. I may give XFCE a try again when I move upstream to Debian. That'll be sometime this year I think.
slacka 13y ago
Agreed. LXDE is my favorite light desktop. I just hope that in the migration from GTK to qt, they manage to keep the memory footprint and CPU resource usage as low as it has always been.