MX-21 Xfce or KDE?

Xfce or KDE?

I'm staying with Xfce
61
63%
I'm staying with KDE
19
20%
I'm moving to Xfce
0
No votes
I'm moving to KDE
0
No votes
Haven't decided
7
7%
I'll have both DEs installed
10
10%
 
Total votes: 97

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MadmanRB
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Re: MX-21 Xfce or KDE?

#21 Post by MadmanRB »

I will sick to KDE as XFCE doesnt do so well on my main PC and its 1440p resolution.
The scaler in KDE for me works better
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Re: MX-21 Xfce or KDE?

#22 Post by Auro Kumar Sahoo »

I love xfce, but I always a kde
Until mx hot an official kde I had xfce, but when I got kde officially, its more useful to me. There are many applications I use are kde, like krita or kdenlive or gwenview...
Kde is also very easy on system resources and it is more modern and rapidly developing

The desktop scale is better, the dolphin having a preview is useful, kdeconnect..this is an awesome program and kde looks more modern more controlled more configuration but same system resources utilisation

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Re: MX-21 Xfce or KDE?

#23 Post by davemx »

I have multiple partitions that can be used as root, and have MX19 in both XFCE and KDE flavours. I am seriously thinking about keeping MX19 for XFCE but moving to MX21 for KDE. I could be persuaded otherwise, I guess, as KDE Event Calendar has reduced my dependence on Orage, though I have an alternate Orage deb that I've hacked in order to restore it to the System Tray using GenMon. I guess that I could also eventually get used to OK/Save/Cancel buttons appearing at the top of dialogue boxes rather than the bottom.
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Re: MX-21 Xfce or KDE?

#24 Post by Sparky »

Did I miss some major release announcement? Where is MX21?
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Re: MX-21 Xfce or KDE?

#25 Post by SwampRabbit »

Sparky wrote: Fri Jul 16, 2021 10:31 am Did I miss some major release announcement? Where is MX21?
It’s in development and no there is no timeline on release. Any public alpha, pre-beta, beta will be announced when they are ready.
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Re: MX-21 Xfce or KDE?

#26 Post by Sparky »

SwampRabbit wrote: Fri Jul 16, 2021 10:37 am It’s in development and no there is no timeline on release. Any public alpha, pre-beta, beta will be announced when they are ready.
Ah, ok thanks.
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Re: MX-21 Xfce or KDE?

#27 Post by deanr72 »

AVLinux wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 1:06 am Staying with XFCE (except with Openbox instead of xfwm)
Interesting. I moved from Crunchbang++ to MX-Xfce when I discovered that they use about the same RAM. The draw was that Xfce has window snapping, plus of course all the MX-tools (I use snapshot to copy my system onto different drives).

On Xfce, I 'turned off' the desktop and edited the right click menu so for all intents and purposes it could easily be mistaken for Openbox.

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Re: MX-21 Xfce or KDE?

#28 Post by AVLinux »

deanr72 wrote: Fri Jul 16, 2021 11:24 am
AVLinux wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 1:06 am Staying with XFCE (except with Openbox instead of xfwm)
Interesting. I moved from Crunchbang++ to MX-Xfce when I discovered that they use about the same RAM. The draw was that Xfce has window snapping, plus of course all the MX-tools (I use snapshot to copy my system onto different drives).

On Xfce, I 'turned off' the desktop and edited the right click menu so for all intents and purposes it could easily be mistaken for Openbox.
Not to derail the topic but for me getting rid of xfwm and xfdesktop both resulted in a reduction of about 100-120mb of RAM at Desktop load... I have 32bit XFCE4/OB systems that boot into the Desktop at 280-300 mb of RAM (64 bit seems a bit less reduced at about 380-400mb). Anyway may not matter to a lot of people but I still have a 32bit system in daily use.. With this setup I still have Whisker menu and the xfce4-panel so at first glance you don't even really know anything is missing..

Now back to the poll..

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Re: MX-21 Xfce or KDE?

#29 Post by agnivo007 »

Well, I'd be evaluating both in a VM first, then possibly make a decision; currently use both on different systems.

Only prayer and its reward would be the kde-systemd boot works well without the nagging issues, mainly network sharing, samba, some settings etc... don't want to reiterate those further here.

On the other side, would like to see new mesa 21.2 stack with intel crocus gpu driver for systems upto haswell in AHS. They seem to spin-off older intel gpu support. Google "intel crocus" or visit phoronix for more info.
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Re: MX-21 Xfce or KDE?

#30 Post by Tweaked Valley »

nly prayer and its reward would be the kde-systemd boot works well without the nagging issues, mainly network sharing, samba, some settings etc... don't want to reiterate those further here.

I went threw that 2 days ago....simple solution...boot into with system mb ......it was fixed for me..never booted back in after....
let me know what you think of xfce...i liike kde but but i find it runs way to hard....

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