I use Xfce via installing Xubuntu. I shifted to it when Gnome 2 expired and have never felt any need to change again. I like having multiple workspaces (usually four) with a simple visual switcher to mouse click between them and each having a unique wallpaper. I add a small set of custom launchers in the toolbar for the applications I use 99% of the time. That's it, I simply don't need anything else.
In my pre-Ubuntu Mandrake period I mainly used KDE3, which is where I found the wallpaper-per-workspace idea suited me. But when I shifted to Ubuntu I found Gnome 2 good enough to not bother with the Kubuntu desktop.
It's always interesting to see people contra-claiming about how "light" Xfce is or isn't - mostly quoting memory usage as the vital measure. When I do occasionally try out alternatives: Gnome, Budgie, LxQt, Plasma/KDE I mainly find that they have a lot of lag in normal usage or simply lack a feature that I consider important. That's LxQt for lacking different wallpapers per workspace. With the others for being laggy too often : my hardware is never latest-thing, so maybe that's why.
Curiously, for a long time Ubuntu user, I was never much fussed about Unity. I simply understood that it wasn't aimed at me, and as a non-beginner I could/would/should just add a DE that I preferred. No angst involved, and no reason to dump a distro over the default DE of one install option.
Eventually, I stopped installing from the plain Ubuntu then adding Xubuntu, and just installed as Xubuntu instead.
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I use Xfce via installing Xubuntu. I shifted to it when Gnome 2 expired and have never felt any need to change again. I like having multiple workspaces (usually four) with a simple visual switcher to mouse click between them and each having a unique wallpaper. I add a small set of custom launchers in the toolbar for the applications I use 99% of the time. That's it, I simply don't need anything else.
In my pre-Ubuntu Mandrake period I mainly used KDE3, which is where I found the wallpaper-per-workspace idea suited me. But when I shifted to Ubuntu I found Gnome 2 good enough to not bother with the Kubuntu desktop.
It's always interesting to see people contra-claiming about how "light" Xfce is or isn't - mostly quoting memory usage as the vital measure. When I do occasionally try out alternatives: Gnome, Budgie, LxQt, Plasma/KDE I mainly find that they have a lot of lag in normal usage or simply lack a feature that I consider important. That's LxQt for lacking different wallpapers per workspace. With the others for being laggy too often : my hardware is never latest-thing, so maybe that's why.
Curiously, for a long time Ubuntu user, I was never much fussed about Unity. I simply understood that it wasn't aimed at me, and as a non-beginner I could/would/should just add a DE that I preferred. No angst involved, and no reason to dump a distro over the default DE of one install option.
Eventually, I stopped installing from the plain Ubuntu then adding Xubuntu, and just installed as Xubuntu instead.