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If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it's Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)...etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.

Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the "Flagship Manjaro version". I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.

After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.

What about you guys?

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[–] ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

XFCE. It's lightweight, easy to tweak and looks great. I run it on my 6 y.o. potato laptop

[–] AugustWest@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The surprising thing is that KDE would run on there just fine too. If you don't add all the PIM stuff, it's almost a wash in memory usage and just as snappy.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

[–] Aelis@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

😂

[–] AugustWest@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Lol, yep. It's always funny to see xfce as being light weight.

Is this where I continue the meme and say I use arch by the way?

On the other hand KDE discover... Yikes. The software manager uses as much memory as XFCE.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I was just joking around, I hope you didn't take it too personally. I've been hearing a lot of KDE enthusiasm lately.

And xfce is great, but it has its pitfalls.

I also get excited about projects, I'm no different.