Debian 10 XFCE Review

If you are not sure, go with MX. And definitely try Debian some time later. Here is my installation guide for debian

Thanks for sharing this.

I prefer Mint for Cinnamon. Cinnamon is developed by the Mint team so it works the best on Mint.

MX is fine. If you get bored, try Debian XFCe.

Hi John, Yes, definitely Linux will work fine and much better than Windows on such hardware. If you like Mate, install Ubuntu Mate. It is extremely polished and lighter than Cinnamon.

I think XFCE is the best for Arch. It changes little overtime, so it is more stable than any other desktops. But if you maintain you Arch well, other desktops work fine too.

Thank you, Panos. I have MX Linux in mind for a long time. I just cannot find time to review it. But I will

You may not like my answer. I always reinstall major versions of any fixed release distro. It's little extra work. But it's the most reliable way.

… reinstall major versions of any fixed release distro….”

As a complete neophyte in such matters I ask: does this mean literally overwriting everything in the relevant partition(s) or even the entire drive, reinstalling the o/s, reinstalling applications, changing settings for printers, scanners, other devices, tweaks for file managers, Gimp and plugins, plugins for Office suite, configuration of and bookmarks for web browsers etc etc? I would be appalled if that were so, since it is the sort of thing I personally might be prepared to do with MS Windows say, once every ten years i.e. only after they have stopped putting out security releases and I am forced to change the o/s.
I'm still using Windows 7 and have updated my image backups in preparation for going dual boot with probably Xubuntu or Debian for internet access and keeping Windows 7 for work unless/until I get acclimatised, but the idea of having to re-create the system every couple of years is too appalling to contemplate - almost as bad as going to windows 10! Am I labouring under a misapprehension? Is a “reinstal” actually something less horrible to contemplate? Would a brief article explaining be worthwhile? ;)

Yes, I reinstall root partiton (/) but I do not touch the home partition (/home) where all the settings are. I also need to install all apps, but it can be easily done with one command because back up the list of installed programs before the backup. However, there is no need to reinstall if you are not willing to spend time doing so. Try to upgrade first and in most cases it works fine.

Hi Marvin, Thank you for your support. I do my best to produce this content regularly.

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It depends when. I used several different themes here. Have a look at my XFCE customization post where I present different icon themes.

Description:

Toffee-gtk-theme is a flat Material Design theme for GTK 3, GTK 2 and Gnome-Shell etc.

GitHub: https://github.com/vinceliuice/Toffee-gtk-theme HomePage: https://vinceliuice.github.io —————————- Based on materia-theme: https://github.com/nana-4/materia-theme —————————– DOWNLOAD TIPS —————————– Toffee: —————————–Dark headerbar version Toffee-compact: —————Dark headerbar Laptop version Toffee-dark: ———————Full dark version Toffee-dark-compact: ——-Full dark Laptop version Toffee-light: ———————Full light version Toffee-light-compact: ——-Full light Laptop version —————————– INFO —————————– GTK2 ENGINES REQUIREMENT

• GTK2 engine Murrine 0.98.1.1 or later.
• GTK2 pixbuf engine or the gtk(2)-engines package.

Fedora/RedHat distros: yum install gtk-murrine-engine gtk2-engines

https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1272472/