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by luciusdomitius 1007 days ago
XFCE is frankly the last full featured Desktop Environment, truly focusing on responsiveness and zero-lag SGI-style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EEY87HAHzk&pp=ygUbc2lsaWNvb... MacOS X, Windows and the mainstream Linux DEs have nice animations, but it is fun watching them the first day. After that it is just annoying.

Really hope that Wayland integration works well for them.
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Qwertious 1007 days ago
>MacOS X, Windows and the mainstream Linux DEs have nice animations, but it is fun watching them the first day. After that it is just annoying.

Wobbly Windows are amazing and never get old. It's been years, and I still get joy from them.

I'm sure there are other nice effects too, but I don't feel that strongly about them - Wobbly Windows are the hill I'd die on.

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pjerem 1007 days ago
Cinnamon is also in this ballpark. Each have their strengths and weaknesses but both are awesome.

Both are pretty dumb when it comes to Hi-DPI support although Cinnamon does an acceptable job at staying coherent when configured with bigger fonts so it’s a workaround. XFCE manages bigger fonts very badly so I have big hopes that real Hi-DPI support will be better with wayland.

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luciusdomitius 1007 days ago
You tell me. My biggest pain with XFCE is multi-monitor support. Like having the menu bar also on the second display and not have two of them when you switch back to single-monitor.
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circuit10 1007 days ago
As long as the animations are done right (subtle and short) they make the experience feel smoother without slowing you down or annoying you. At least that’s my experience, it’s probably not the same for everyone
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prmoustache 1007 days ago
It is not like people have superherofast reaction times. The lag and responsiveness is mostly a matter a perception.

And in gnome's case you can just disable animations in Settings-->Accessibility-->Seeing-->Reduce animation

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