XFCE thread - /g/ (#105970763) [Archived: 146 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/20/2025, 10:05:08 PM No.105970763
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I feel like this is all I need and that it just works even on my modern beefy hardware.

What are some good XFCE distros I should try if I start distro-hopping again?

What are some problems of XFCE that I should be aware of?

Why do you like personally XFCE distros?
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Anonymous
7/20/2025, 10:08:57 PM No.105970806
I like combining Arch/Artix with XFCE
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Anonymous
7/20/2025, 10:36:37 PM No.105971122
>>105970763 (OP)
A HECK'N RAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 10:37:48 PM No.105971132
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>>105970763 (OP)
>Artix + xfce + dinit + XLibre
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Anonymous
7/20/2025, 11:00:37 PM No.105971370
>>105971132
buy an ad neko-chan
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Anonymous
7/20/2025, 11:09:30 PM No.105971444
>>105971370
no
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Anonymous
7/20/2025, 11:20:22 PM No.105971511
>>105970763 (OP)
>What are some problems of XFCE that I should be aware of?

tumbler likes to rescan all the thumbnails if you move some folder to another place. All of a sudden your disk i/o goes up (for several minutes on a hard drive with several thousand thumbnails).
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 11:41:39 PM No.105971675
My positives
Desktop icons, you can have a different wallpaper per workspace and the panel is really customizable.
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Anonymous
7/20/2025, 11:44:25 PM No.105971700
>>105970763 (OP)
I have a gayming rig and I want my distro to be lightweight thatโ€™s why I went with fedora xfce.
Might try distro hopping to Manjaro xfce or xubuntu or endeavor.
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 11:54:08 PM No.105971803
>>105971675

also thunar is really weird in icon view, depending on your window size or icon view size, it can have a huge gap that doesn't get filled even if you make your icons bigger. I never experienced that with Nemo or Nautilus.
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 12:36:32 AM No.105972205
Is Xubuntu good?
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 1:10:22 AM No.105972520
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>>105971803
Never had that issue.

>>105972205
Not really other than ok default theming. Debian + XFCE is better. No snaps and apt telling you to get Ubuntu Pro for security updates.
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 1:33:46 AM No.105972725
>>105971444
Based and checked.
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 2:56:12 AM No.105973324
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>>105972520

i tried googling and there's definitely talk about the way the icons are spaced out, found this. My thunar is also like the one on the right.
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 3:52:42 AM No.105973636
>>105971132
almost based
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 4:06:54 AM No.105973728
i may be a retard but mint xfce just werks for me
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 6:58:14 AM No.105974654
debian stable + xfce here.
I need light weight even on a high end system.
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 7:21:51 AM No.105974782
>>105970763 (OP)
>What are some good XFCE distros I should try if I start distro-hopping again?
MX Linux, Salix, SolydXK, OpenMandriva's Xfce Spin, Fedora's Xfce Spin, the PCLOS Xfce ISO, Mint Xfce, Devuan, and Manjaro Xfce.

>What are some problems of XFCE that I should be aware of?
If you avoid systemd, there are none. If you use systemd, power management and screen-locking can be buggy, but only on laptops.

>Why do you like personally XFCE distros?
Because Xfce is the best GTK-based DE ever made.
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 7:31:48 AM No.105974823
Gentoo + XFCE + ClassicLooks Summerstorm + some classic window theme made by a Vietnamese or Malaysian dude + Alacritty + Emacs + Librewolf.
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 8:16:30 AM No.105975060
Devuan w INIT+XFCE
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 8:43:30 AM No.105975238
>>105970763 (OP)
customization.
but once you switch to a tiling wm, customization becomes futile. and at that point i might as well use hyprland.
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:15:32 AM No.105975397
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best thread on /g/ right now
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:17:15 AM No.105975406
>>105975397
where's the tearing?
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:20:48 AM No.105975432
>>105975406
up your ass
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:23:35 AM No.105975448
>>105975432
why are so hostile? projecting much? i was simply asking for the version of the gif that tears.
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:52:46 AM No.105975641
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>>105975448
wasnt me
>wheres the tearing
dont have that one
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:56:38 AM No.105975662
>>105975406
xlibre uses TearFree by default
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 1:13:55 PM No.105976684
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>>105975641
>dont have that one
nta, but here
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 1:59:35 PM No.105976965
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>>105970806
>>105971132
>>105975397
>>105976684
Based
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 4:11:08 PM No.105977853
>>105970763 (OP)
>What are some good XFCE distros I should try if I start distro-hopping again?
Not sure.
>What are some problems of XFCE that I should be aware of?
It will look very outdated until you start tweaking it a lot.
>Why do you like personally XFCE distros?
Stability and low resource usage. Aint broken aint a need to fix it.
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 4:51:02 PM No.105978144
>>105975060
waiting for xlibre
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 5:10:24 PM No.105978296
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>>105970806
>>105971132
This is very anti semitic
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 5:47:01 PM No.105978623
>>105978296
your screenshot isn't antisemitic, it's transphobic. which is just as based, but not the same thing
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 5:50:25 PM No.105978654
>>105973324
>nishant
Stay on Gnome, java user.