I F*CKING LOVE XFCE

I have a 2013 Macbook Pro with 4gbs of ram. It was given to me by family after I started a software engineering degree since I didn't have a laptop and I couldn't really afford one. Other than the display, it was an utter shitshow; everything is painfully slow, MacOs Big Sur felt counterintuitive, shitty battery life, and overall a really shitty experience. Only good thing was how vscode ran way better on MacOs for some reason? But I am not complaining since it's forcing me to learn Vim.

I decided to completely ditch MacOs and install fedora, as I was studying an OS course where we mainly used fedora. GNOME was a shitshow as well. Other than the good looks; the performance was bad, 3 tabs of firefox were enough to freeze the laptop to eternity unless you force shut it down, customizability was lacking, and overall it was unusable. I figured I would give KDE a try, it was better, but still not particularly usable; battery drain was violent, 5 tabs of firefox would freeze the system, a lot of bugs and fucked me over in multiple practical lab exams. I finally decided to give XFCE a try and holy shit it's amazing; 6 hours of battery life, everything is very snappy and fast, similar customizability to that of KDE, looks really good, and everything is fluid and seamless. Everything just works as it should, and it's perfect.

I just want to thank anyone who contributed to this wonderful desktop environment. The beautiful experience inspired me to learn much more about operating systems and Linux, hoping someday I can contribute as well. I even now prefer using my laptop over using my Windows gaming rig, as it's snappier and makes me feel much more productive.