A post from David Gerard reminded me why I still use Xfce almost everywhere.
  • DeuxChevaux@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months 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.

  • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
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    5 months 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
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      5 months 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
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        5 months ago

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