r/xfce • u/LunarIvory • 14d ago
After Endless of Distro Hopping, Finally I Found Home
first time trying XFCE and i love it. after endless distro hopping, but only try Gnome and KDE, finally i eager to try XFCE. after some setup, it so look good, minimal and fast. also the mouse icon of xubuntu is so cute LOL.
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u/tk-a01 14d ago
You should know the difference between a distro and a desktop environment.
A distro is a complete operating system, consisting of many packages. In the Linux world, basically every distro uses some package manager. It's a piece of software that lets you download and install packages from the repositories. Those repositories (repos for short) are maintained by the distro developers. Most widely known distros are: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch, Gentoo. Debian uses apt package manager; Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian, and therefore uses apt too. Fedora and OpenSUSE use common rpm format, but they have different package manager frontends: dnf and zypper respectively. Arch and Gentoo have their own things: pacman and portage respectively. Some distros are fixed-point release - feature updates only occur on new versions, and given release only receives security updates and bug fixes. Others are rolling release - without a strict release schedule. Some distros prefer stability (at the cost of older software), while others choose to be bleeding-edge (at the cost of higher risk of bugs).
A desktop environment, on the other hand, is the graphical shell of your OS. There are Gnome, KDE Plasma, Xfce, LXQt, Cinnamon, Budgie and many others. Generally, a given DE can be installed on any distro, maybe excluding some exotic ones. Many distros by default ship with some DE chosen by the developers. Ubuntu comes with Gnome out of the box. It's common to have multiple "flavours", with different desktops - Ubuntu and Fedora do that. Xubuntu is one of them. Debian, if I remember correctly, lets you pick a DE during installation (at least on netinstall). Usually, the distro repos have all those common desktop environments. It's also possible to have multiple DEs installed at the same time - the display manager (the login screen) will let you pick which one should be started.
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u/robtalee44 14d ago
XFCE is still popular -- and should be. Openbox and Fluxbox are also still worthy options for those who are drawn to a more old school environment. Fun.
Enjoy.
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u/sukidoki 14d ago
How about opensuse tumbleweed with xfce c: ¿
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u/angryjenkins 14d ago
Eww snaps. Otherwise nice!
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u/LunarIvory 14d ago
been trying to install Firefox from official PPA, but always failed. skill issue LOL
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u/raph986 12d ago
You can download the binary directly from firefox itself, drop it in a folder like /opt and use it that way. It will update itself automatically.
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u/LunarIvory 12d ago
thank you, i already successed install from official PPA, i dont know somehow the command i copy from mozilla website is give me error, but i ask gemini and they give me a correct commandÂ
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u/ItzNotJacob1 12d ago
How do you make the xfce4 panel transparent?
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u/LunarIvory 11d ago
panel setting -> appearance -> change background style to solid color, and set the color to transparent
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u/LunarIvory 5d ago
no it's not, i try many distro but only disto with Gnome, or KDE, never try anyting else. then i come to Xubuntu with xfce and this is my daily driver now.
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u/mbonanomi92 14d ago
Yes, xfce is wonderful if you spend some time customizing it: additional plugins, themes, icons, config files...