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Posted Nov 11, 2012 20:38 UTC (Sun) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: Xfce fanboi here by man_ls
Parent article: Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users

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.

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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.