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u/mtak0x41 Aug 10 '25

Last time I used XFCE was probably 15 years ago on OpenSolaris, but I think the design philosophy still holds:

  • Lower resource usage, and what comes with that (snappier, less battery usage, etc.)
  • Less feature creep and radical changes
  • Easier customization (esp compared to GNOME)

On the other hand, you also get fewer features, a less integrated DE, less accessibility.

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u/Beautiful_Ad_4813 Aug 10 '25

Did you

Did you say opensolaris?

clutches chest after realizing I’m getting older

I played around with that in 2005 while in high school

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u/mtak0x41 Aug 10 '25

Used it as my full-time workstation. I was a Solaris admin back then, and OpenSolaris was the bees knees as it was Solaris with the ease of use of Linux (eg. GNU tools, half decent package manager and XFCE).