Subj : Re: KDE Plasma desktop vs. Cinnamon (KUbuntu vs. Linux Mint)
To   : Nightfox
From : fusion
Date : Fri Jan 30 2026 08:27 pm

On 30 Jan 2026, Nightfox said the following...
 
 Ni>   Re: Re: KDE Plasma desktop vs. Cinnamon (KUbuntu vs. Linux Mint)
 Ni>   By: Gamgee to esc on Fri Jan 30 2026 08:03 am
 Ni> 
 Ni>  Ga> Xfce for me.
 Ni> 
 Ni> Also, I like Xfce as well.  I like that Xfce seems to have more retro
 Ni> themes that are fairly easy to set up - On my secondary PC, I have a few
 Ni> OS/2 themes, a BeOS/Haiku theme, a Mac OS 9 Platinum theme, and a Mac OS
 Ni> Aqua theme that I cycle through sometimes.

xfce is a cool one.. with a decent bit of history. these two cousins, chock full of IBM UI paradigms:

https://www.landley.net/history/mirror/os2/history/os2warp/webex.gif
https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/screenshot/CDE-3.png

and xfce, which looked like this during it's earlier days:

https://www.linux-community.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/xfce.png1.jpg


some of that older stuff is nice, if a little weird/different. i prefer windows minimize onto the desktop still and have that turned on in IceWM :)

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