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Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com)Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com)Posted Feb 20, 2007 20:03 UTC (Tue) by cantsin (guest, #4420)Parent article: Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com) I'd go even farther than the author and argue that with version 4.4, XFCE has become the better Gnome. The desktop is just as pretty, functional and user-friendly, but runs on a fraction of the resources thanks to a lean codebase and avoidance of middleware layers (such as Bonobo/Orbit, gconf, scrollkeeper, evolution-dataserver, Mono etc.). On top of that, it is even better configurable. Being a non-desktop user on most of my machines, I even managed to tweak it into a behavior similar to fullscreen window managers like ratpoison and Ion simply by adjusting keyboard shortcuts and window manager behavior in the XFCE settings panel. At this point, XFCE is IMHO closest to what the mainstream user Linux/Free Software desktop should have architecturally been from its beginning: user-friendlier and more integrated than a raw fvwm or Window Maker, yet strictly adhering to the Unix virtue of simplicity. XFCE currently is the only integrated desktop that gives users back the feeling that Linux/GNU and *BSD get more performance and value out of their machines. Kudos to the XFCE developers for putting an end to about ten years deep frustration with the direction of mainstream desktop Linux.
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