EndeavourOS is moving to KDE Plasma for its live environment and offline installer from Xfce. You’ll hear no complaints from me!

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    1 year ago

    “KDE Plasma offers a more native development experience for the team and therefore it is easier to maintain. This is the main and only reason for this switch”

    As a user I switched from KDE to XFCE, and found it to be an improvement. But I’ve never done any development involving Xfce.

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        1 year ago

        Well, they’re both pretty good.

        Xfce starts off closer to the way I like things and requires less messing around with the config to get it all the way there. It changes less frequently, which I appreciate. It uses slightly less memory, seems to go wrong less often, and has fewer things I have no interest in like ‘kwallet’ or whatever. And I appreciate what seems to me its more approachably modular nature, which made it very easy for example to replace the “screenshot” command with one that does exactly what I want (which is just take a shot of the whole screen and write it to disk in a place of my choosing without bothering me about it.)