Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 17th Jul 2009 10:17 UTC
While we regularly discuss Ubuntu, and to a lesser degree Kubuntu, there's also a version of Ubuntu tailor-made for the Xfce desktop environment. As most of you are aware, it's called Xubuntu, and after trying it out for the first time, I have to say that I find that it provides a better and more coherent experience than Ubuntu (let alone Kubuntu).
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RE: XUbuntu is basic, if you want more go to (K)Ubuntu
by spiderman on Fri 17th Jul 2009 15:11
in reply to "XUbuntu is basic, if you want more go to (K)Ubuntu"
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Only a window manager is all? And that you have more themes? You can replace the window manager (metacity/compiz) with the XFCE one, even it does not look so amazing. My issue with XFCE is that it starts fast only the basic desktop. The rest of GNOME libraries are already cached, so any libgnome application does it's job.
You can tell XFCE to start GNOME and/or KDE daemons from the configuration panel. Just tick the boxes. BTW, Tom, the iconification of programs is not an afterthought on XFCE. It is the filesystem icons that is an afterthought actually. Earlier versions of XFCE didn't have filesystem icons.
Anyway, it is true that XFCE has grown a lot and is a fantastic DE, but Xubuntu is probably one of the worst implementation of it. If you like XFCE, you should try Zenwalk. It's not debian-based but it is a very good distro.
Edited 2009-07-17 15:12 UTC
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Only a window manager is all? And that you have more themes? You can replace the window manager (metacity/compiz) with the XFCE one, even it does not look so amazing. My issue with XFCE is that it starts fast only the basic desktop. The rest of GNOME libraries are already cached, so any libgnome application does it's job. Also, the basic tools of Gnome are equal or better than the XFCE counterparts. Taking a bit more memory is not the main concern for most people, but the problem to Just Work.
KUbuntu also excluding the start time of KDE, afterward is snappy, even on an Atom machine with 1G of RAM.
The issue of XFCE IMHO is that it does not drive so much tracking in it to makes person that have paid developers inside it. This is a problem that both KDE or GNOME do not have. Also XFCE seems limited when you run around. You cannot move the icons out of the desktop grid...
Sounds silly, but excluding that you don't have a machine that for real have low RAM, I am really thinking that XFCE is not (yet) a replacement for GNOME/KDE. Or may be, but a painful one.