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XFCE Vs MATE (lemmy.world)

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Ding Ding Ding

In the blue corner, weighing at 400MB ram or less in usage. XFCE with a easy to use UI and light footprint. It has a good file manager and pretty much is the go to standard if you want a cinnamon windows like desktop but less weight for old machines and netbooks.

In the green corner, the ancestor of Gnome 3, born out of hatred for its future counterpart, we have MATE. MATE is also a lean desktop and is easily customizable using different panels if you were a mac, windows or unity desktop user. Without bias I exclusively use this on Ubuntu MATE for a laptop between me and my brother.

Which contender in the desktop ring do you prefer? Why? What's the positives and negatives for you?

Round 1, GO!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

With that little ram, you're better off with jwm, lxqt, lxde, or icewm. Not xfce or mate, that require over 600-800 MB of ram just to start up. In fact, with so low ram, you're better off with something like Haiku.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I believe they mentioned the ram used by xfce, not the total system ram, but thank you for the recommendations, I'm really interested in software able to run in very low end hardware.

[–] LeFantome 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

If you do try Haiku, use Falkon as the web browser. You will have a much better experience than the other Haiku browser options.

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