Dedoimedo to Xfce 4.14: meh

[Jerry3904]

Predictably, he doesn't like it.

www.dedoimedo.com/computers/xfce-4-14-review.html

[Auro Kumar Sahoo]

What I understand from most of his review, He is a good user and reviewer to KDE. And most of time I agree with his views. He has good logics to it. KDE is definitely a more advanced desktop in Linux than anything. Wheather you hate it or love it, it's best professional desktop and usable after unity.

Xfce is like windows 98, and KDE is windows 7. Both works, but when you see modern support like android integrated or Firefox KDE integration.. and look & feel KDE is more features with same memory stamp even better at 350 mb Ram and 1-2% cpu.

And one of my desire is the how beautiful it will be when one perfectly combine best of 2 world, KDE and core MX.

[JayM]

The performance benefit isn't as huge as it used to, because Plasma is super lean, too.

Oh, really??? That's news to me and to my computers.

[asqwerth]

That is a rather shallow review, though. He mentions modern relevance of xfce and doesn't check out the display scaling functionality, support for multi-displays, etc?

How hard would it be to actually test some of the stuff in the What's New release notes, and then write a substantial review on how well these things work or don't work?

[Auro Kumar Sahoo]

The performance benefit isn't as huge as it used to, because Plasma is super lean, too.

Oh, really??? That's news to me and to my computers.

Yes, the modern KDE 5.16 is 350 mb Ram with 0-1% CPU at a fresh start or idle state.(as tested on KDE neon and kubuntu minimal)

Xfce usually during 2012 has better and lower memory footprint, but now at 450-500 mb it's more to KDE.

[JayM]

They must have improved Plasma a lot since I last used it. Even Adrian's KDE respin is slower than Xfce. I haven't tried Jack Daniel's.

[chrispop99]

About the only thing I agree with him on is the 'folder' confusion.

I spent a while trying to make it work, until I discovered that it it not implemented OOTB. The release notes should really have been clear about that.

Chris

[asqwerth]

JayM, you have to test the newer versions. They do feel lighter and faster.

I have it on Neon Developer's Edition and Sabayon. Don't know how new the plasma versions will be in MX17/18 respins, being based on Stretch.

But I'm still not as comfortable on the interface compared with GTK based DEs.

[JayM]

Maybe I'll test Plasma on MX-19 and see what happens.

I've been fond of KDE since it was new and the only choice was between it or Gnome, but since switching to MX I've also grown to appreciate Xfce a lot. So we'll see how it goes.

I used to use PCLOS with Plasma and when switching distros a KDE 5.x version being available was kind of a deal-breaker for me, just because Plasma was what I was already used to and knew pretty well. I think that's a lot of it for DE preferences: what you already know and feel comfortable with. I got used to Cinnamon on Mint last year too, when they dropped a KDE version with Tara, and rather liked it once I got used to it.

[asqwerth]

I'm not saying that XFCE 4.14 is necessarily the bee's knees; I'm just saying that if you want to write a review on it, then be more thorough, examine the things that are actually new, and tell your readers about it.