Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 20th Feb 2008 00:11 UTC, submitted by irbis
"Although I have some doubts that XFCE is 'so very much lighter' than GNOME (GNOME 2.20 doesn't take too much memory if you don't start all kind of crap), it is still lighter, and in a few years there will be less and less antiquated computers who require extra-light window managers (Fluxbox, Openbox, Blackbox, WindowMaker, IceWM). XFCE is reasonably mature, and constantly improving, so it has all the chances to become the mid-weighted Desktop Environment of choice pretty soon! What is XFCE needing to reach the Nirvana? Here's the way I see things."
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2005-07-06
I currently earn my money coding largely in python, so I obviously don't share your opinion here.
Just because you don't need it doesn't make it bad. I am far from an MS fan but I have to admit, without having actually used it too much, that their whole CLR/.NET stuff looks pretty neat from a technical standpoint.
At a guess possibly because most people aren't bothered by it at all. I've heard a lot of different critisisms of mono, and have to admit this is a new one. It hadn't even crossed my mind.