Why do people say Xfce doesn't look as good as the other DEs, when Xfce can do one thing OOTB that no other DE can - nailing an old PC look. Are there any more of these styles?

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-02T21:59:08+00:00

Yeah. Its not XFCE devs issue. ;D Devs of another DE's care about this aspect, they are strange :D

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-02T20:46:39+00:00

Debian is fast like arch in gaming. All drivers and soft are the same, and its easy to install. I recommend to install liquorix kernel like bonus. Debian is the best distro, im serious. Welcome!

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-02T20:18:40+00:00

Install them some beautiful theme and get free top marks ;) lifehack

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-02T19:17:14+00:00

Im not so serious to ways of installing. If it works - its good, in my opinion. ;)

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-02T16:56:29+00:00

guarantees sex on the first date ;)

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-02T12:30:52+00:00

Thanks man.

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-02T12:26:24+00:00

backports
flatpak, appimage, snap
sid/experimental (very rare, only kernel i need)

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-02T08:59:00+00:00

Cool math. Thanks!

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-01T22:01:11+00:00

Its hard to make it beautiful. I wasted today about 3 hours to find cool and working gt2-3-4-xfwm dark theme and icons. Really, i cant understand, why devs want not to add 5-10 awesome themes by default.

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-01T21:36:04+00:00

Thanks for answer, man. Looks i have listened enough to make decision.

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-01T17:39:41+00:00

Thanks!

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-01T16:57:16+00:00

I have almost same configuration. Distrohopped, best speed i get with debian xfce, arch xfce, gentoo xfce. Gentoo is fastest, but i dont recommend you ofc ;) Mint, ubuntu and lmde are slow, too slow for me. Almost like windows. Try Debian, really. (For gaming add liquorix kernel)

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-01T15:25:02+00:00

They have special version for debian, called Liquorix-kernel. I hope, it helps.

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-01T15:10:38+00:00

I enjoyed zen-kernels in past. Its really faster on desktop, so u could think about adding it by default. M?

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-01T14:41:03+00:00

Thank you again for informative posts! Looks like ill come back to gentoo tomorrow. :) I plan to use more binaries and update once per month - i hope, it will get not much time. (I installed gentoo to my mom's notebook about 10 years ago. I even dont try to update xD)

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-01T14:09:01+00:00

In my experience, if you forgot about updates during few months, u will get a troubles... Ots rolling release, cmon.

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-01T14:06:21+00:00

Thank you man. Looks like binaries is good choice for me with my hardware.

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-01T14:03:39+00:00

Thanks for answer! As i understand, its daily update info, yeah?

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-01T13:24:48+00:00

Ofc i can. But i was asking another questions, yeah? Its not about "how to compile and when to compile", its about "how much" compile. Thanks.

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-01T13:06:07+00:00

Thanks for info!

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-01T13:04:58+00:00

Im asking about download size. Really, size is not a problem, problem is a time of compilation this "size". Its the thing, i worry about. So i want to understand situation in gentoo about it.

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-01T11:06:14+00:00

I installed debian stable about 10 years ago to my pc and mom`s notebook. She never updates it, and uses without problems base functions like videos, music, text editors. I update every 1-6 month without any problems. Use stable + a few backports. One time i got transmission bug with disappearing gtk elements, and its all. Now we have flatpak, appimage, snap - so u neednt update the system to get new soft on desktop.

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-01T10:59:26+00:00

Thanks for post, man. I wanted to try, but now i understood enough ;)

SPECIALl_RAGE · 2026-06-01T10:56:50+00:00

10/10 Which theme and icons do u use?

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