Every time I try another DE I always come back to XFCE. Lightweight, stays out of the way, gets the job done. NEVER crashes. Ever.
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As a poor person with low-end, old hardware, I love XFCE. It has extended my laptop’s practical use-life by at least 8 years now, and counting.
Xfce is such a great interface.
There is a place for graphically gorgeous distro's
As a current KDE user but extensive user of XFCE in the past, it may not come "pretty" out-of-the-box but XFCE can be a very aesthetically pleasing desktop environment. It can be configured just about every which way, and if I had to switch back to XFCE right now I could have things just about how I want them and be 100% as happy with my desktop as I am with KDE.
It's got defaults that just make sense, doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or the way we interact with our desktops, it's light and fast and reliable. It's associated default programs (Thunar, etc.) follow the same design paradigms and are a delight to use.
I Iove XFCE, and it will always have a special place in my heart.
“Simple” and “aesthetically pleasing” aren’t mutually exclusive!
It does have some issues. Like when using multiple workspaces and you get a popup on a different one it will move that whole application over to your current workspace. That is just extremely annoying for my usecases. KDE plasma does not do that, I think it might be a GDK thing?
I like XFCE. It's the only DE that was just happy to run in my super weird setup without issues.
