On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 09:24:50 +0100
haaber <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 01/03/2019 06:03 PM, Frédéric Pierret wrote:
>>> We built the upstream package of xscreensaver in current-testing for
>>> both Qubes 3.2 and 4.0.
>>>
>>> Welcome back to XFCE Chris :D !
>>
>> LOL, seriously?
>>
>> The XFCE deficits are too numerous, unfortunately.
>>
>Dear Chris, for less advanced users it might be helpful to have a
>non-dogmatic discussion on advantages and disadvantages of both sides. I
>guess that XFCE has speed on its side, for example. Visual aspects seems
>on the KDE side (at least for me). I invite you to give us a deeper
>comparison... best, Bernhard
>
GUI of choice is a very personal thing. I am more pragmatic and don't like
"dancing" icons and starting all of my application names with K...or G for that
matter...but to each his own. I am "slightly" impaired visually, and the
simpler and more clean a GUI, the better for me. I have to spend many hours in
front of a screen each day.
There is a tad more manual effort to get XFCE 'just right', but I like the
visually simple appearance and would rather devote my computing power to
function than what I consider fluff. Now historically I have used older, less
powerful machinery. In fact, my Qubes machine is having motherboard issues
with the power management circuitry and won't boot reliably so I'm actually
using an old Dell D620 32 bit machine for now...which used to be my wife's
Windows 7 computer. The screen is a tad flaky which is why she quit using it,
but it is at least functional and boots when I ask. I have a replacement
motherboard on the way and will be doing the surgery on my T520 once I get it.
I'm not really a hardware guy, so it will be a learning experience to be sure.
Even with the additional power of a 2.5Ghz four core processor, I still prefer
to save the power for actual work.
Stuart
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