Papasot wrote: ↑22. Dec 2021, 13:42
Seriously, why all this nonsense?
That's my question ...
“First of all, Xfce is NOT broken. Every single distribution I tried that comes with Xfce 4.14 as default works GREAT [...]”
If you could understand the language ... try reading Wittgenstein ... Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus deals with that.
Language and 'the way of thinking' issue: "it is broken" and "it is working" DO NOT EXCLUDE each other! (!!!)
Qualification: When examining what is working or not and how well, you need some basic understanding.
“It seems to me you used a distribution that doesn't come with Xfce preconfigured, and you just don't know how to configure it yourself, despite the fact it's pretty easy."
So, why do the 'distro-bakers' even build anything, if they are uncapable to properly configure it?
Those are the images from the DistroWatch Weekly, new distribution 'advertising':
https://distrowatch.com/images/ktyxqzob ... espire.png
https://distrowatch.com/images/ktyxqzob ... eavour.png
On their original screenshots 'advertisement', both of them are obviously broken.
Fluxbox 'masterly preconfigured' by some 'design barbarians':
https://ibb.co/HNRmVJL
“[...] if you think a distribution should not come with Xfce as default because "it is broken" then spend a few hours to configure a lightweight Openbox session, where you can pick the taskbar you like [...]”
Besides Gnome and KDE, I also have CDE, Cinnamon, Fluxbox, Fly, IceWM, JWM, LXDE, LXQt, Mate, Trinity, TWM, Window Maker, Xfce ...
Fluxbox, IceWM and JWM also in some very stylish, cheerful and colorful designs.
i3 and Openbox, of course, too.
https://ibb.co/v41dhmy
https://ibb.co/NpRbsYq
"You seem to like that bloated resource-devourer called KDE - well go for it. Linux is all about freedom.”
You seem to be the one who is unable to read the numbers or who can't preconfigure ...
https://ibb.co/wybLYRd
https://ibb.co/0KrfsdC
https://ibb.co/gJhdg64
Gnome-Shell, 'the hungriest DE' is actually not all that much worse than the Xfce. You can't just read how much resources xfwm4 alone is using, but you need to add all those multiple 30 ~ 50 MB processes for the panels, icons and taskbar extensions -- gnome shell also does it 'all-in-one'. What needs a lot of RAM in Gnome is not a Gnome-Shell itself, it's the 'ZRAM', 'App-Store', 'Updater', 'Search' trackers and other sophisticated technology bits and pieces, which are completely missing in Xfce.
“That's 2005, and it needs to stop.” (Dedoimedo)
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ ... /zram.html
“Linux is all about freedom.”
Yup -- the diversity killed the Linux.
“Third, my several-years-experience says "selfish" is FAR from describing pretty much anyone active in Salix forums.”
Since you are saying that in a direct response to my previous post, that even had a link with an explanation included ...
Reading is more than merely recognizing the single characters and connecting them into the words and sentences ...
https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthre ... ing-Issues
Happy Christmas!