A post from David Gerard reminded me why I still use Xfce almost everywhere.
  • kumi@feddit.onlineOPEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    Digested HN comments:

    I really do feel like XFCE on x11 is the logical choice, it “just works” and every app runs well

    Also try LXDE and LXQT if you would like a ‘lighter KDE’ vibe instead of the ‘lighter gnome 2’ vibe of XFCE.

    I’m a longtime fan of XFCE. I try all sorts of DEs from time to time on spare computers, but I reliably come back to XFCE, which is really just a fairly low-resource, stable embodiment of the classic GNOME feel.

    I’m genuinely wondering why everybody hates modern GNOME.

    Wayland just seems really unstable to me

    Xfce is the definition of comfy computing.

  • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    XFCE is fantastic for “I need a quick and dirty GUI for this server”. Absolutely fantastic.

    I know it can be made “pretty”, but I don’t have the patience for that.

  • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
    102·
    2 days ago

    I used XFCE in 2009 when I had an underpowered netbook. It was ugly then though, and as far as I know it’s still ugly today.

    • ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      “Ugly” is a subjective opinion, it’s extremely modular. The window decorations can be themed to look like anything, really. Get a modern set of icons like papirus or numix and it looks totally different.

      I also use compiz with it, which makes it way less resource friendly, but it behaves like any modern OS.

      • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        I mean nowadays I need features from this decade like mixed dpi so Xorg isn’t an option anyway.

  • DeuxChevaux@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Been happy with XFCE for many years now. I switched to it, when they scrapped Gnome 2. I don’t care much about looks, though. It never distracts from what I actually want to work on, has all the functionality I need and more, and never gets in my way.

    Yeah, I’ll keep it.

  • Johnnyvibrant@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    In an ideal world where corporations kept all their laptops which windows 11 forced upgrade breaks, XFCE would be a great solution.

    Simple enough to lock down and easy enough for most users to understand without too much training.

    This aint an ideal world though.

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    Xfce was once impressively lightweight, and last time I checked was still less demanding than GNOME and Plasma. I used it for years, until Gtk 3 brought changes that I couldn’t stand.

    I kind of miss Thunar.