Rubenerd: Xfce is great

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Digested HN comments:

I really do feel like XFCE on x11 is the logical choice, it “just works” and every app runs well

Also try LXDE and LXQT if you would like a ‘lighter KDE’ vibe instead of the ‘lighter gnome 2’ vibe of XFCE.

I’m a longtime fan of XFCE. I try all sorts of DEs from time to time on spare computers, but I reliably come back to XFCE, which is really just a fairly low-resource, stable embodiment of the classic GNOME feel.

I’m genuinely wondering why everybody hates modern GNOME.

Wayland just seems really unstable to me

Xfce is the definition of comfy computing.

I just can’t get xfce to look right with my monitor resolution
What’s the resolution of your monitor?
I used XFCE in 2009 when I had an underpowered netbook. It was ugly then though, and as far as I know it’s still ugly today.
Yo momma still ugly today, FishFace.

Xfce was once impressively lightweight, and last time I checked was still less demanding than GNOME and Plasma. I used it for years, until Gtk 3 brought changes that I couldn’t stand.

I kind of miss Thunar.