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Any reason MATE over Xcfe? Just curious if the performance is close or MATE is better at things, not trying to question your decisions. I have a >9 year old PC at this point and installed Cinnamon on it but was finding it a bit laggy. I tried out the other editions but am sticking with LMDE for now, but sort of feel like I don't really need nice animations, I just need more CPU for faster compile times, haha
XFCE is so ugly and clunky, I wouldn’t ever suggest that a Linux novice ever use it. It’s fucking horrific. It’s a user interface you choose when you have no other choice and are just that desperate. Suffice to say, I wasn’t that desperate.
It was important that this user have an interface that he could navigate easily, an XFCE was not that interface, nor will it ever be.
Edit. I should note that this may be colored with some personal bias I have against XFCE. I just don’t like it and only use it when forced to. So, ya know, keep that in mind…
I apologize
I didn’t mean to sound derogatory or insulting, and i apologize for coming off that way.
What I meant by “desperate” is “desperate for functionality on X hardware”, thus left with no other choice but XFCE— due to its amazingly low-resource requirements. This was not intended to insult you, nor anyone. it is reflective of my personal dislike of XFCE, not anyone else who uses it, likes it, or, especially, the XFCE Dev team.
Please don’t misunderstand me.
I just don’t like it personally, find it a poor choice for novices, and thusly, thought it the wrong choice for the user I was targeting. My comment WAS NOT a judgement on those who use and/or like XFCE.
I hope this clears things up
It would undoubtedly perform better…
But my guy is so unaccustomed to tech, that he just needs simple and smooth. XFCE is not for Linux novices.
It’s just the wrong desktop environment for him. MATE provides a fusion of performance and usability.
Then what about LXQT?
I read “Then what about LGBT?” for a sec and tried imagining what a DE with RGB lighting would look like
It would look fucking amazing.
Definitely bias against XFCE.
EndeavourOS switched their default desktop from XFCE to KDE and I think it looks worse. They switched for toolkit reasons, not UX. The XFCE desktop look is heavily themed, very modern, and I think quite beautiful ( though a little purple for some tastes ).
I have another XFCE box that is practically pixel for pixel themed to look like Windows XP. This is just novelty value of course. Even if you do not like XP, it is hard to argue that it was a UI that normal people hated.
I agree that the “default” XFCE look is not great.
Here is the EOS XFCE desktop: https://github.com/endeavouros-team/endeavouros-xfce4-theming
Here are a few more themes including clones of both macOS and Windows 10: https://itsfoss.com/best-xfce-themes/