This poll is specific for the upcoming MX-21 since it'll bring newer versions of both DEs, Xfce 4.16 and Plasma 5.20 (5.22?).
What will be your choice and will you be moving or staying?
MX-21 Xfce or KDE?
MX-21 Xfce or KDE?
Last edited by Bamber on Tue Jul 13, 2021 7:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: MX-21 Xfce or KDE?
What if you plan to have both DEs like you already have on MX 19?
- pianokeyjoe
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Re: MX-21 Xfce or KDE?
I like the option to have one or both in the ISO like with AHS. If I want only one or no DE, we all know what we can do there!! MX LINUX baby!!
Pianokeyjoe
Intel i5 3.10ghz ,8GB ram, Intel onboard everything, 500GB HDD, MX-LINUX 19.3
Intel i5 3.10ghz ,8GB ram, Intel onboard everything, 500GB HDD, MX-LINUX 19.3

Re: MX-21 Xfce or KDE?
I chose XFCE4, but neither XFCE4 nor KDE (especially) play well in remote sessions with x2go. Therefore, I use the XFCE4 edition adding LXDE on top of it for remote sessions, though in remote sessions (like 500 miles away) I'll often just use the OpenBox window manager with LXPanel as the panel and PCManFM to manage the desktop. This comes out as light as FluxBox but with a completely bog-standard like user interface.
- Gordon Cooper
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Re: MX-21 Xfce or KDE?
Xfce
Backup: Dell9010, MX-19_B2, Win7, 120 SSD, WD 232GIB HD, 4GB RAM
Primary :Homebrew64 bit Intel duo core 2 GB RAM, 120 GB Kingston SSD, Seagate1TB.
MX-18.2 64bit. Also MX17, Kubuntu14.04 & Puppy 6.3.
Primary :Homebrew64 bit Intel duo core 2 GB RAM, 120 GB Kingston SSD, Seagate1TB.
MX-18.2 64bit. Also MX17, Kubuntu14.04 & Puppy 6.3.
- linexer2016
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Re: MX-21 Xfce or KDE?
Ditto Gordon, Xfce 4 Me 2.
For me Xfce is deserving of its flagship role in MX ever since the earliest times of this great distro. It's flexible, intuitive and can be prettied up as little or as much as one wants.
For me Xfce is deserving of its flagship role in MX ever since the earliest times of this great distro. It's flexible, intuitive and can be prettied up as little or as much as one wants.
Re: MX-21 Xfce or KDE?
Fluxbox of course
... oh, and Xfce

... oh, and Xfce

Re: MX-21 Xfce or KDE?
Staying with XFCE (except with Openbox instead of xfwm)... It is a "known Devil" and I don't really want to take time to learn a whole new D.E. as complex as KDE or even Fluxbox to be honest... For me a 'simple' unencumbered light D.E. is the appeal of Linux being something unique and different than Windows or OSX. Just an opinion...each to their own of course!
Re: MX-21 Xfce or KDE?
I'm staying with Fluxbox ;-}
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mx-fluxbox, what else?
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mx-fluxbox, what else?
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments.
There are consequences.
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