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Xfdesktop 4.13.1 Released, Another Step Towards Xfce 4.14
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Mate is good on low hardware too, only mate-system-monitor is tremendously CPU hungry, I'm talking 10% to 20% CPU use or more depending on what tab you look at - last I remember, xfce4-taskmanager was very CPU hungry too. I wonder why the "task managers" are so bad. Perhaps Windows has better hooks, since the Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP/7 task manager had no issue.
There's some "fake" slowness if you run Mate on Linux Mint : the Mint menu takes long to open, because it initializes/caches stuff. But that's only the first time you open it (whether immediately after boot, or a day after you booted, doesn't matter)
Both Mate and XFCE were not great with dual monitors (different issues) but with recent Mate (1.16 or 1.18) or XFCE 4.14 this might be better (I'm on single for now). Things can be a bit silly when you want the primary monitor on the right, that kind of stuff. Awareness of mis-matched height is among the silly things. Both desktops are moving a bit slow but are very much alive and small things get fixed or improved regularly, that's encouraging.Last edited by grok; 14 June 2017, 08:36 PM.
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Originally posted by Slartifartblast View PostOnly of interest to those who have substituted religious zealotry with distribution and DE zealotry, I wonder who that could be ?
Top panel and bottom dock is for weak minds with Apple envy.
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Originally posted by debianxfce View Post
People use Xfce because it is freely configurable, works, boots and shutdowns fast. No cpu or ssd is enough fast for win10, gnome3 and kde. That is called wintel conspiracy, force people to buy new hardware to run new software.
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While my daily drivers is usually KDE, I've used XFCE extensively on low-end machines and VMs.
However, in the last couple of month I switched these machines to mate (from XFCE), as it seem to behave better in VMs and has somewhat better configuration options. (E.g. panel configuration, applets, desktop icons, etc).
I truly hope XFCE development will pick up and close the gaps.
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oVirt-HV2: Intel S2400GP2, 2xE5-2448L, 120GB, 8x2TB, 4x480GB SSD, GTX730 (to-VM).
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