On 2014-08-16, behrouz khosravi <bz.khosr...@gmail.com> wrote: > So can you please tell me why you have chosen a specific DE and not > the other options ?
I've been running XFCE for a long time. Before that, I didn't have a "Desktop Environment" at all, just the fvwm window manager which I started using back before Linux kernel version 1.00 came out [before Linux and fvwm were around, I mostly used the "twm" window manager]. At some point many years ago, there was some problem with fvwm that I couldn't work-around (I don't even remember what it was). I tried Gnome and KDE, but they were just _way_ too big and slow, and they both seemed to think that the desktop was the be-all-and-end-all of computation and should always being the center of your attention and the user-up of all resources. I run a computer in order to run various apps. The desktop is just there to manage windows and facilitate running those apps. It should otherwise stay out of the way, out of sight, and out of memory. XFCE does a pretty good job of that. XFCE isn't too big. XFCE doesn't think it should always be the star of the show and the center of everybody's attention. XFCE is stable: it doesn't get completely re-designed, re-skinned, and broken every few years because people finally figured how to actually use the old version and some new batch of developers are bored and want to spray their scent all over everything Here's what my XFCE desktop looks like: http://www.panix.com/~grante/desktop.png -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Were these parsnips at CORRECTLY MARINATED in gmail.com TACO SAUCE?
