On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 05:39:38 +0000, Jan Panteltje wrote:

> On EVERY computa I have, I run Linux and immediately replaced whatever
> desktop it has by fvwm and xfm from the late last century.
>
Same here, but my bigger systems (old dual-Athlon house server and a
couple of Lenovo laptops) all run Fedora with the XFCE desktop.

I've been running Fedora ever since it replaced Redhat Linux 7.x with no
real issues. I switched to XFCE when Poettering's crew released Gnome2, a
buggy, unfinished mess.

XFCE is worth a look: reasonably lightweight, no fancy fripperies and by
an large it just gets on with the job.

Being naturally lazy, my RPi (an early 512KB B) has always run Raspbian
in headless mode, though I periodically wonder if its worth switching it
to Fedora - IMO dnf beats the pants off apt and that, apart from closer
compatibility is a good enough reason for making the switch.

> This gives me 9 virtual desktops,
>
XFCE has 4 virtual desktops by default - a very useful feature,
especially because moving applications between desktops is just a drag 'n
drop operation on the main (top) menu bar.


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