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?

    • AugustWest@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 days ago

      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·
        4 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.