Recently I decided to try using Xfce as my main desktop environment on my primary tower PC. I typically stick with KDE Plasma ...

<B>Background</B><BR><BR>Quick version - installed xubuntu on a coworkers old laptop and it piqued my interest.<BR><BR>Installed the xubuntu desktop (xfce) on my Ubuntu 9.10 installation.

On the surface, they might seem similar, but they are actually quite different. Let's dive in.

You point your browser at a local IP address or hostname and suddenly you have a full XFCE desktop running in your browser.

We've taken you through a tour of Window Managers in Linux, and now it's time to show you the Window Manager's bigger brother: the desktop environment, or DE for short. With a sea of choices out there ...

Although often classed as light-weight, Xfce qualifies as a medium weight amongst the Linux front ends. It's heavier than, say, LXDE or Window Maker but it uses less resources than KDE or Gnome.

Rhino Linux has been one of my favorite aesthetics on the open-source desktop for some time. From theme to layout, the developers had taken the Xfce desktop and made it special. From the first time I ...

There’s a new Linux distribution for smartphones that’s the first I’m aware of to be based on the Xfce desktop environment, but while the first pre-release builds of ExpidusOS for the PinePhone are ...

Between Unity and GNOME 3, there seems to be no end to the controversy surrounding Linux desktop environments this year. Unity, of course, has been raising some eyebrows ever since it debuted in ...

Linux is all about choice, and choosing a distribution is only the first step. Linux distros usually have a default desktop environment, but there are a slew of desktop environments available to use.