On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 at 21:38, Wiebe van der Worp <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 11/30/24 14:18, Liam Proven wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 at 19:40, Wiebe van der Worp <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I've switched to Debian+XFCE
> >
> > Plain straight version, or Xebian?
>
> Debian net-installer and choosing XFCE instead of Gnome.

OK.

> I have not considered those options to be honest.

They are easier, but less well-known.

> However, there are no
> complaints about speed of Debian from my side.

Good.

> Tuning XFCE is a bit odd,

How so?

> but I ended up with exactly the same look and feel as Xubuntu.

That is what Xebian does by default. But I checked before replying and
it may be that the project has shut down. Perhaps I drew attention to
it by writing about it:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/24/xebian_a_debian_xubuntu/

I'd be very sorry if that were the case.


> I have to
> migrate VirtualBox to KVM in time

Host or guest?

> but found proper Debian support for
> the meantime.

OK.

> No snaps...What a relief!

Easy to purge from Xubuntu Minimal. But I do not mind Snap myself.

> It feels less bloated someway.

Strange. I find Debian feels rather large to me.

> For example, Firefox and Thunderbird are ESR and that is fine with me.

There *are* only ESR versions of Thunderbird in recent years.

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