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Xfce fanboi here

Posted Nov 11, 2012 17:38 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users by salimma
Parent article: Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users

Xfce never disappoints. It eats up less memory, it spares your processors for useful work, changes very slowly and improves all the time. I have all effects turned on ("display compositing") with an onboard Intel graphics card and it seldom reaches 5%.

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Posted Nov 11, 2012 20:38 UTC (Sun) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

I'm afraid XFCE did disappoint me. I tried it for a couple of months, then gratefully installed MATE. I may yet try Cinnamon, but the urgency has waned.

I installed Gnome 3.4 on a few machines for relatives/acquaintances. After adding a half-dozen extensions and fair bit of "tweak"ing, they are more or less satisfied. Their browser environment is the lion's share of their user experience. The greatest difficulty, there, is when they try to open a new attachment type, and must know to root around in /usr/bin to find something to run on it.

Xfce

Posted Nov 11, 2012 23:28 UTC (Sun) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

> I'm afraid XFCE did disappoint me.

What was it about Xfce that you found disappointing?

I used it for a while, before switching to Cinnamon, and I found it to be a reasonable replacement for Gnome 2. I thought the panel configuration was awkward, but otherwise it was OK.