[LUAU] XFCE is fairly cool

[Jeff Mings]

Thanks, Peter

     It's interesting to hear about everyone's desktop preferences. I 
really like XFCE too.  I experimented with XFCE and LXDE and concluded 
that XFCE was more robust and mature than LXDE.  I currently use XFCE as 
the desktop for a number of email users.  I have a few servers at 
different locations for a client with a lot of "roving" managers.  They 
log into their accounts with VNC and get to their email, files, etc., 
with a fairly low bandwidth overhead. Like a terminal server setup, but 
much simpler, cheaper and more flexible.  XFCE is great for running 
multiple simultaneous users on a server without requiring much CPU or RAM.

-Jeff

On 08/31/2012 04:11 PM, Peter Besenbruch wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:17:03 -1000
> Jeff Mings <jeffm at lava.net> wrote:
>
>> Gnome 3 is not really ready for prime time.
>>
>> If you're using Ubuntu 12.04 and don't like Unity, go straight to Mate
>> Desktop and don't waste your time playing with the others.
> Thanks for your impressions of Unity and Gnome. I fear Gnome 3 will make Gnome
> a mere shadow of its former self. The Gnome team's lack of responsiveness
> reminds me of the XFree86 crew, and Oracle. Here's hoping Mate stays viable.
>
> My own path over the years has been different. I was always partial to KDE. I
> was smart enough to avoid the earliest versions of KDE 4, making the jump to
> 4.3. I noticed several things: There was less functionality than 3.5 (mostly
> rectified now). The memory footprint was larger. You could run KDE with 256
> meg. of RAM. Now you really need 512. There was lots of stuff running in the
> background, and things got worse if you ran KDE-PIM.
>
> Eventuallly, I found substitutes for the KDE apps I ran. I use the version 3.5
> version of KDEaddressbook from Trinity. I switched from Kmail to Claws. I do my
> calendar stuff with an on-line app that comes with the domain I use, instead of
> Korganizer.
>
> With most of the KDE apps gone, KDE went too. Eventually I settled on XFCE 4.8.
> I use it on Ubuntu Lucid and Debian Squeeze. With Squeeze, it uses less than 90
> meg. on a fresh boot to desktop. It's very flexible, and above all, stable.
>
> I also use Remmina to connect to a Vino server, both running under XFCE. Hey,
> they work.
>
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