• navordar@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    XFCE has convinced me to switch to Linux. Xubuntu has a nice elementaryOS-like theme by default and apps from the DE are extremely fast.

    I really don’t understand the hate it gets. Maybe because the defaults aren’t that good?

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      Who is hating Xfce? Besides the “lightweight” DE crowd.

      The project doesn’t have a lot resources, so it’s behind on things. They do great work for what they have though.

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          3 days ago

          Yeah, it’s a “middleweight” DE.

          LXDE, LXQT, Openbox, i3, Sway, FVWM. That sort of thing.

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            I wouldn’t say they “hate” it though. XFCE-components used to be common additions to really lightweight desktops (IDK if they still are, haven’t looked into it in a while), because they can actually be used on their own (unlike most KDE stuff) while still being somewhat lightweight compared to Gnome stuff.

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      It doesn’t have so many essential modern features, kde has hdr, proper fractional scaling, mixed refresh rate displays and is much more secure thanks to wayland, plus the performance hit is tiny these days.