Subj : Re: What's Your Go-to OS
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Wed Feb 19 2025 16:29:02

-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ga> I like a little bit of "eye candy", and have been using XFCE for years.
 Ga> Cleaner and lighter than Gnome/KDE at least.

 Ni> I have my main PC at home set up to dual-boot between Windows 11 and
 Ni> Linux Mint. For Linux Mint, I'm using its Cinnamon GUI environment, but
 Ni> I'm actually considering switching it to XFCE for the themes support.
 Ni> I use exclusively Linux Mint for my BBS PC, and although it's
 Ni> technically set up to be a server, I use the XFCE UI on it, as I tend
 Ni> to like to use some UI-based software on it, and I'd heard XFCE is
 Ni> lighter than Cinnamon.  I've had a look around and have been able to
 Ni> find several XFCE themes that I like (mostly, themes based on other
 Ni> operating systems such as BeOS, OS/2, Mac OS X (Aqua) or even classic
 Ni> Mac OS), and it seems harder to find such UI themes for Cinnamon
 Ni> (though at some point I thought I remembered being able to find some
 Ni> for Cinnamon that I liked).

I think you'll like it, especially if you're already seeing/using it on 
the BBS machine.  Cinammon is based on / forked from one of the Gnome 
versions, and I do like it best among the various Gnome offshoots 
(better than Mate for example), but for me XFCE is better and is what 
I'm used to at this point.  In the end it's all a matter of personal 
preference, and on strong hardware it doesn't matter much.  The 
"lighter" desktops are much better on older/marginal hardware.  I'd say 
XFCE is a "middle-weight".  :-)



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