GNOME or XFCE?


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GNOME. Its a complete desktop, not a crappy piece of nothing. And its fast enough.

XFCE is a complete DE as well ;)

I like XFCE because it's clean, fast, and it is capable of using plugins to extend it's functionality.

I use KDE a lot more, but I might switch over to XFCE for a while... :)

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i personally like gnome its clean clear and natural in my opinion, i never got on much with KDE its trying too hard to be windows deskop and those excessive bevels on everything very windows3.11 :D

For me its gnome every time its the like the ultimate hybrid of windows and MacOSX :) so i likes it a lot and its not too bloated either which makes it a winner for me

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i personally like gnome its clean clear and natural in my opinion, i never got on much with KDE its trying too hard to be windows deskop and those excessive bevels on everything very windows3.11 :D

For me its gnome every time its the like the ultimate hybrid of windows and MacOSX :) so i likes it a lot and its not too bloated either which makes it a winner for me

XFCE is extremely non-bloat. it's slim and it looks nice. :) :p

Just posted my XFCE desktop over in the desktop thread. :)

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XFCE 4 is much faster than Gnome. It has a task bar and a panel, like Gnome. It's skinnable and very configurable. The two things I miss most from Gnome are being able to right-click an app's title in the taskbar and get a menu, and being able to use the volume control buttons on my keyboard.

But it doesn't come with a decent text editor. No sound player, and no compression utility. The only real app it comes with is a file manager. It's file manager is nice looking and very functional (even supports samba), but limited to tree-view.

Oh, and you can't have icons/folders on the desktop at all, only a background image.

Despite these shortcomings, I like it because it's not as minimalistic (read: masochistic) as some of the other less-bloated DEs. Unlike those, it's got most of what I expect from a full-fledged DE like KDE or Gnome - just enough to use comfortably, once you install xmms, and text editor, and whatever else you need.

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XFCE 4 is much faster than Gnome. It has a task bar and a panel, like Gnome. It's skinnable and very configurable. The two things I miss most from Gnome are being able to right-click an app's title in the taskbar and get a menu, and being able to use the volume control buttons on my keyboard.

But it doesn't come with a decent text editor. No sound player, and no compression utility. The only real app it comes with is a file manager. It's file manager is nice looking and very functional (even supports samba), but limited to tree-view.

Oh, and you can't have icons/folders on the desktop at all, only a background image.

Despite these shortcomings, I like it because it's not as minimalistic (read: masochistic) as some of the other less-bloated DEs. Unlike those, it's got most of what I expect from a full-fledged DE like KDE or Gnome - just enough to use comfortably, once you install xmms, and text editor, and whatever else you need.

and if you already have KDE or Gnome installed, you can run your GTK/QT apps under XFCE4 as well :)

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Despite these shortcomings, I like it because it's not as minimalistic (read: masochistic) as some of the other less-bloated DEs.

The minimalistic gui's are indeed different, but not masochistic.

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