I'm sitting here recompiling most of my system packages using clang, because why not, and figured I'd just reach out and say hi, I love you all. Now AMA.
yeah one of the main reasons i've stuck with xfce is because you can set a pseudo-tiling setup with screen halves/quarters and multiple desktops in like 5 minutes. i've played with i3 a few times and i feel like all of the tiling features i'd use i've already replicated in some way in my setup. is there anything that you find it offers that you can't hack together relatively quickly in xfce?
i do miss xmobar and conky and having my desktop be just a massive plethora of system information but that kind of thing just gets in the way and distracts me nowadays.
TBH I just switched to try. Both are fairly similar tbh since a lot of XFCEs design ideas were borrowed from Gnome 2 and MATE is merely the continuation of the Gnome 2 codebase. I might just switch back after I try qtile. I've heard some people say XFCE is a bit snappier on older hardware so if I fix my netbook I might try it on that, although I'm more inclined to try LXQT.
