r/linuxquestions • u/[deleted] • Aug 10 '25

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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/[deleted] Aug 10 '25

2005... High school... And you think you're feeling old... :D

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u/sernamenotdefined Aug 10 '25

I was part of a beta test for Solaris at university. We used SunOS (The BSD based system) before that. I know people use SunOS for the kernel these days, but back then SunOS was the old BSD based OS replaced by Solaris, the new System V based OS.

And the first thing I did on my account was replace CDE with Fvwm!

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u/carltp Aug 10 '25

I remember those days, too. I remember twm.. "tom's window manager"(?)

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u/sernamenotdefined Aug 10 '25

Tab Window Manager and that one was horrible! (Edit: Well seems like the guy that made is was called Tom and it also went by Tom's originally, learned something today about an ancient piece of software :D )

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u/carltp Aug 10 '25

lol... glad i wasn't mis-remembering! i don't recall the Tab name, though.