I used to use a fresh installation of Arch without a real DE, just running i3. But I noticed my setup lacked a lot of useful stuff that I wanted to have (specially in laptops). Played with gnome-session, no good and a lot of stuff I didn't want. When I moved out from i3 to EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) I noticed I really needed the benefits of a desktop environment and that's where I first tried XFCE.
Good thing is all the XFCE cons on this post don't matter to me.
Old school design it's pretty much my design of choice (I don't see it because I just run Emacs, but Emacs has an old school design too).
Slow development is fine for me since most of the things I do are still done outside the DE configurations, but I have access to the session manager and power management.
No Wayland support: EXWM doesn't have Wayland support either.
Good post though, I noticed I also played with every single one of them. Now I'm more stable with my choices.
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I love XFCE.
I used to use a fresh installation of Arch without a real DE, just running i3. But I noticed my setup lacked a lot of useful stuff that I wanted to have (specially in laptops). Played with gnome-session, no good and a lot of stuff I didn't want. When I moved out from i3 to EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) I noticed I really needed the benefits of a desktop environment and that's where I first tried XFCE.
Good thing is all the XFCE cons on this post don't matter to me.
Good post though, I noticed I also played with every single one of them. Now I'm more stable with my choices.