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If only XFCE wasn't so bloody ugly on Debian ...

• bittercynic 11y ago
  LXDE is very beautiful on Debian, though, and also reasonably fast and light.
  • davidgerard 11y ago
    YMMV. I tried LXDE on Debian a few years ago and found it was simplified just that bit too far. I did appreciate that when I tried to set the clock to show seconds, it (literally) told me to look up "man 3 strftime". It's sorta heartwarming to know that level of curmudgeonly user-hostility can still be found in the wild.
    • bittercynic 11y ago
      It is user friendly to users who like the desktop environment to stay out of the way, and to stay the same year after year so that we can just bring our ~/.config/lx* over to a new system and have things set up the way we're used to. LXDE may not be for everyone, but the desktop environments that try to appeal to the broadest audience can seem pretty user-hostile to me.
      • davidgerard 11y ago
        Can't wait till I have a phone that friendly. http://newstechnica.com/2008/09/22/free-software-foundation-announces-gnuphone/ http://newstechnica.com/2008/09/22/free-software-foundation-...
• pnt12 11y ago
  I wasn't too impressed with XFCE on fedora - it was light indeed, but it felt too boring for regular desktop use. Then I tried Manjaro Linux and I loved it - the xfce theme shipped by default looks and feels amazing. fedora: https://spins.fedoraproject.org/static/images/content/xfce-screenshot-01-lg.png https://spins.fedoraproject.org/static/images/content/xfce-s... manjaro: https://manjaro.github.io/images/manjaro-xfce-090-pre4.jpg https://manjaro.github.io/images/manjaro-xfce-090-pre4.jpg