So, a while back I installed Xfce with Chicago95, but was disappointed. Xfce just doesn’t vibe with me, and a strict emulation of Windows95 is not really what I wanted, I just wanted something that “felt” that classic.

So I was gonna give up and just use KDE, until I saw TDE. I think TDE is probably what I’m looking for but I’m concerned about using anything so minor because security.

It TDE secure (for personal use)?

Can a DE even be insecure, or are they all generally as secure as each-other as long as you follow the rules (trustworthy software, closed firewall, install patches fast, and disaster recovery plans)?

What vulnerabilities can a desktop environment even have (edit)?

  • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.website
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    18 hours ago

    What do you mean by “window roll-up”?

    Also, the settings menu thing is weird - mine takes less than a second to load, and I’m on a machine with a 7 year old processor at this point. I almost worry that if that takes a long time KDE will be more miserable performance-wise, unless you’ve already tried it on here.

    By the way, what distro and XFCE version are you running - just for good measure.

    The outdated sentiment is probably based, honestly. I think it’s gotten better, but there are rough edges. In the end, do what works for you.

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      16 hours ago

      Roll up is when you scroll-up while hovering over the title bar and everything except the title-bar disappears. In the image monovergent provided the title bar is highlighted in red.

      I use Linux Mint with Xfce. Gonna change to OpenSUSE once I can be bothered distro-hopping.

      EDIT: Specifically it’s the Font Settings that take forever to load, not all of the settings menu.

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        15 hours ago

        Oh yeh. The font menu is crap. I can’t argue with that.

        It’s one of those mysterious annoying things that’s up there with the GTK file picker in some apps taking 10 seconds to load.

        But I also don’t change fonts that often. Still, that has much room for improvement.