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5 Reasons Xfce Is My Favorite Linux Desktop (www.howtogeek.com)
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That last one always pisses me off. "It just gets out of my way". Who sits there and interrupts their thought process because a window animation they've seen a thousand times before happens again?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    @ikidd @cm0002 This is the major reason I prefer the lighter desktops, Mate, XFCE, LXDE, LXQT to monstrocities like KDE Plasma, Gnome (especially as configured by Ubuntu, less unpleasant on other distros), and yea, I know that Gnome and KDE can both be configured to not be so obnoxious but time in the day thing.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Not to mention you can turn them off or set eg KDE to functionally look like Xfce.

    But then again - they also mention that 'you can tweak' Xfce as a key plus (after the key plus of it being standardised & not offering surprises). I don't think that a plus relative to other popular DEs.

    I'm OK with there being articles, but it seems they def had the idea of the format of the article ("top 5 things") before they had the content/the pros drafted.

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