Falling in love with XFCE..

**MaarteOS** · 01-Oct-2008, 15:58

After several months of living with the joy and heartache of KDE4, I decided to take a small vacation, and so I dropped down to the wonderful isle of Xfce.

It's a desktop environment I haven't used before, and I'm starting to wonder why. It's quick, lightweight, it doesn't get in my way. And yet it's functional, looks beautiful, and it's truly responsive. Stability doesn't even come into the equation. It does what I need it to do and doesn't complain.

KDE 4.x.x is without doubt a heavyweight, - and it's definitely something I'll use again at some point in the future, perhaps next year. But quite frankly I've missed some of the speed and responsiveness I'm used to.

For myself atleast, my holiday home may well become my permanent residence, for the forseeable future atleast. If you do decide to take a break, I can't recommend Xfce enough. The weather's beautiful down here..

**ken_yap** · 01-Oct-2008, 19:35

Yes, some of those lighter weight window managers prove that small doesn't have to be plain. One of my spare time amusements is booting up small distros on older hardware. I was impressed by the look of Openbox which is used by Tinyme, a remaster of PCLOS. Here is a gallery of screenshots.

TinyMe 2008

Notice the embedded status display on the wallpaper.

If you have an older notebook computer with limited RAM, do try the lean alternatives to GNOME and KDE. You might even get some admiring looks from bystanders, alas for your desktop not for you.

**mooreted** · 01-Oct-2008, 20:45

Love Xfce. Not sure why you would need anything else.

**conram** · 01-Oct-2008, 21:53

Originally Posted by mooreted

Love Xfce. Not sure why you would need anything else.

Hey, you're not alone, it's been my DE for 3 years now

Right now I am playing with 4.6 alpha.

**69_rs_ss** · 01-Oct-2008, 22:28

conram wrote:
> mooreted;1878312 Wrote:
>> Love Xfce. Not sure why you would need anything else.
>
> Hey, you're not alone, it's been my DE for 3 years now

> Right now I am playing with 4.6 alpha.
>
>
Was my favorite until I found LXDE. That is my DE now as I look into
playing around with either Awesome, DWM or WMII.

**dobbs007** · 01-Oct-2008, 23:10

openSUSE 10.3 KDE 3.5.7 for now. Good stuff..
Before SUSE I used Zenwalk and XFCE for a year. Zenwalk thumbs down XFCE thumbs up...

**AlienHealer** · 02-Oct-2008, 00:55

i installed xfce a few weeks ago, when i was having problems with kde, sadly it wasn't preinstalled with the live cd's, but i loved it.

**69_rs_ss** · 02-Oct-2008, 05:27

AlienHealer wrote:
> i installed xfce a few weeks ago, when i was having problems with kde,
> sadly it wasn't preinstalled with the live cd's, but i loved it.
>
>
No but it is an option during install if using the DVD so that is a plus.