You could be more right than I thought. Usually it can go one of two ways: underdeveloped or respectively efficient
But while yes, XFCE may look like the left behind friend in highschool, who still lives in the cellar of their mom, I’d expect that it is left that way on purpose.
It has many adaptable features and can be debloated to near any extent.
(skip this part if you don’t need a life story)
I personally fell in love with it 'cause I was on multiple MASSIVE hysteria-hypetrains of Tiling WMs and diy distros (etc.) but never completed my journey due to my failed efforts and patience running out.
Now after many rabbitholes of “systemd-free”, “glibc-free”, “debloated”, (list goes on) I learned to accept that I don’t get everything and made compromises with myself to settle with a not-half-bad (or not-half-good) distro with XFCE.
Yes you need a bit of good knowledge of Linux and especially file systems to use this to the fullest and not just as a nearly pre-given and pre-customised DE (like swapping cursors or fiddling with lightdm (basically sddm)), but when that’s the best you get, take it.
P.S. I may be a glazer of all of these things but I can assure you I’ll be at a slightly different point of things in about half a year again ('cause’ve another rabbithole ofc).
P.P.S. For reference I use PeppermintOS (devuan based) which, hates me, I hate it (…sometimes), but it fixes itself if you do the groundwork (don’t ask me how, it just does).
They have similar ram usage profiles and similar cpu usage. That on top of the KDE having a ton of extra functionally is why I say KDE is more efficient. Maybe its not the case if the machine has no GPU to offload to. The benchmark wasnt super indepth.
well, if they are indeed using similar amounts of cpu (my idle XFCE shows in top at a steady 0.3%, I have a hard time believing KDE can do that), then someone did indeed tweak KDE. When I last used it, KDE3 was freshly out and I hated the UI, so I stopped using it - only to realise that I had been missing out on a lightning fast Window Manager.
However, that extra functionality may or may not be useful to people.
The only thing that would make me consider switching would be if a window manager offered to organise multiple desktops on the inner(!) surface of a cube and I could swap environments having a concept of up, down, left, right, front, back.
Isnt xfce less lightweight than KDE? Just because it looks like shit doesnt make it efficient.
You could be more right than I thought. Usually it can go one of two ways: underdeveloped or respectively efficient
But while yes, XFCE may look like the left behind friend in highschool, who still lives in the cellar of their mom, I’d expect that it is left that way on purpose. It has many adaptable features and can be debloated to near any extent.
(skip this part if you don’t need a life story) I personally fell in love with it 'cause I was on multiple MASSIVE hysteria-hypetrains of Tiling WMs and diy distros (etc.) but never completed my journey due to my failed efforts and patience running out.
Now after many rabbitholes of “systemd-free”, “glibc-free”, “debloated”, (list goes on) I learned to accept that I don’t get everything and made compromises with myself to settle with a not-half-bad (or not-half-good) distro with XFCE.
Yes you need a bit of good knowledge of Linux and especially file systems to use this to the fullest and not just as a nearly pre-given and pre-customised DE (like swapping cursors or fiddling with lightdm (basically sddm)), but when that’s the best you get, take it.
P.S. I may be a glazer of all of these things but I can assure you I’ll be at a slightly different point of things in about half a year again ('cause’ve another rabbithole ofc).
P.P.S. For reference I use PeppermintOS (devuan based) which, hates me, I hate it (…sometimes), but it fixes itself if you do the groundwork (don’t ask me how, it just does).
(sry for the monologue)
No it isn’t. Unless KDE has had a major debloat since KDE4. XFCE is lightning fast.
They have similar ram usage profiles and similar cpu usage. That on top of the KDE having a ton of extra functionally is why I say KDE is more efficient. Maybe its not the case if the machine has no GPU to offload to. The benchmark wasnt super indepth.
well, if they are indeed using similar amounts of cpu (my idle XFCE shows in top at a steady 0.3%, I have a hard time believing KDE can do that), then someone did indeed tweak KDE. When I last used it, KDE3 was freshly out and I hated the UI, so I stopped using it - only to realise that I had been missing out on a lightning fast Window Manager.
However, that extra functionality may or may not be useful to people.
The only thing that would make me consider switching would be if a window manager offered to organise multiple desktops on the inner(!) surface of a cube and I could swap environments having a concept of up, down, left, right, front, back.
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