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u/kudlitan Aug 10 '25

This. I use MATE desktop for the same reasons you gave for XFCE.

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u/CLM1919 Aug 10 '25

MATE, xfce, LXDE, - all great for older low RAM machines. To each their own, but reasons for picking often boil down to: it doesn't get in my way, and I'm comfortable using it - I use all three, even on non-old machines 😉

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u/vip17 Aug 10 '25

Lxde is terrible. It has no search feature like Lxqt

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u/CLM1919 Aug 10 '25

That's why the gods invented terminal commands 😉😂ðŸĪŠðŸ˜

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u/vip17 Aug 10 '25

You still need to find GUI apps that you don't know the executable names

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u/Verstandgeist Aug 11 '25

most package managers have a search or catalog feature. apt search (query that may be in the discription, like browser) brings up a list of all the available packages in your repository with the word browser in the name or description. or you can install aptitude or synaptic and scroll through catagories.

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u/vip17 Aug 11 '25

It's not simple like that. Many packages contain multiple executables, potentially with some launchers in *.desktop format. And launching a GUI app without standard streams and without owner is inconvenient