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What desktop enviroment do you use and why?
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I'm old, I come from old X11R4 time, motif, mwm, twm, fvwm, things from previous century. In modern Linux I used mostly gnome, and Cinnamon for a few years and tried to love it but cannot, I finally went back to Xfce because it works, it's simple, neat, nice, I have no icon on my desktop, I have a kind of windows 3 setup: a startup menu (and some quick launches), the window bar, the notification area with time etc
I'm using MX Linux for maybe 8 years now with Xfce
updated screenshot:
Nice desktop, reminds me of cinnamon.
Just installed that in a VM to play with! Any particular reason that became your daily driver?
I have tested multiple distro, in the beginning was mostly hack of multiple things and almost LFS, downloading floppies images from usenet... I then started to use Debian early 00, then used Ubuntu for years, but I don't like snap/flatpak and lots of changes Ubuntu made so I switched to Mint Cinnamon, but hated it, often broken, glitches, etc, so I switched to MX because it is Debian based, always up to date (like latest FF and latest Xserver with last night CVE fix etc and always native .deb, no snap/flat). I also always loved minimal DE so Xfce is perfect and light. Also I mainly develop in Linux, no games.