From: ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com   
      
   On 2026-03-06, rbowman  wrote:   
   > On Fri, 6 Mar 2026 10:52:57 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2026-03-05, Mike Easter  wrote:   
   >>> Axel wrote:   
   >>>> Why do you use XFCE in preference to Cinnamon?   
   >>>   
   >>> I use Cinnamon as my everyday driver, but I also like for my 'dabbling'   
   >>> distro/s to be lighter weight, all the way down to WMs instead of DEs.   
   >>>   
   >>> XFCE is on the lighter side; such as Gnome is certainly a heavyweight.   
   >>> Historically KDE has been 'all over the map' sometimes as low as XFCE   
   >>> and sometimes as high as they come.   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm happy that T Pearson has continued to keep Trinity DE fork of old   
   >>> KDE alive along w/ his fork of old Qt for a nice lightweight DE.   
   >>   
   >> And Mate is somewhere between Xfce and Cinnamon. Basically Gnome 2-like.   
   >   
   > While GNOME2 is better than GNOME3 I never liked it that much. I did   
   > install the MATE iso but later went with Cinnamon. I didn't see much   
   > difference in RAM usage.   
      
   I moved to Gnome 2 when KDE moved from (I think) 3 to 4 (or maybe it was 2   
   to 3). Whichever it was, there were a lot issues with the new KDE version at   
   the time.   
      
   Since I've been using Mate (then Cinnamon) for about 17 or 18 years now,   
   it's pretty much where I'm staying. (Though I experiment with KDE from time   
   to time.)   
      
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