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The 5 Best Xfce - based Linux Distributions

internetling.com — Nowadays most major distros simply go for KDE or GNOME, but it is not very common to see a distro use XFCE. This is a very sleek and useful little desktop environment, which provides great GTK compatibility and increases speed. Today we’ll take a quick look at which distros you should choose if you wish to have an instant Xfce experience.

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  • TheWindBlows, on 10/19/2008, -0/+3Look up LXDE and enlightenment based distributions.

    http://opengeu.intilinux.com/Home.html
    Disabling Drop Shadows gives it a major speed boost.
    If u choose enlightenment you might want to look at this http://exchange.enlightenment.org/
    Be aware Enlightenment is different in how it handles things (1 dock does all if you want it that way it can be changed you can always add panels too.) compared to a normal desktop its lighter than Xfce but is more graphically pleasing than most things you see along with its what you could call Linux's own appearance.


    most LXDE based distributions aren't too polished.
    http://lxde.org they state on the front page what uses LXDE.
  • gavintlgold, on 10/19/2008, -0/+1Great article. I have a ToughBook with 256MB of RAM and no cd drive. It runs Xubuntu VERY slowly, basically unusable. I've looked around, but anyone else have any good suggestions for an alternative that won't suck up so much RAM?

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