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Xfce Getting a New Version Soon
jones_supa writes It looks like the release of Xfce 4.12 is finally about to materialize. It has been about two and half years since the last stable release. There is now a concerted effort underway to ship a new release of this lightweight GTK+2 desktop environment out around the end of February or early March. "As we have discussed the status and progress of core components with many of you individually, we feel confident that the state of Xfce is good enough to polish some final edges and push more translations until then," wrote Simon Steinbeiß on the xfce4-dev mailing list. The official list of showstopper bugs does not look too bad either. However, looking at the long time between releases certainly makes one think if the project could have use for some extra resources.
Does Linux ebven matter? In the lasy 10 years at all the companies I worked I saw several versions of Windows and zero Linux installations.
That said, the main difference is that XFCE is made with the intention tio work, not to look nice. So it will be used more by hardcore Linux users who are fed up by KDE and GNOME, Especially when GNOME 3 came out, many people went to XFCE.
The reason I use it is because without any problem I can use three monitors with a seperate desktop. GNOME and KDE will do Xinerama by default. This means that if I change the workspace, I will no longer see the program on monitor 2 and three, while all I want is to change the workspace on monitor 1.
It is apparently possible in KDE and GNOME, but I have not found a way. XFCE is as close as how I would like to work on a computer, without too much problems. KDE and GNOME take way to much time configuring to where I want to be.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
or consume to many resources
Why, why is this still and issue? Are you using a Pentium 4 with 512MB of RAM? Otherwise I can't comprehend how on earth you would claim any OS to be "resource intensive." There's no such thing in 2015. Every OS works fine with decent hardware, and if you use computers for a living I can't believe you're not able to buy 8GB of RAM.
Anyway, I'm not telling you how to use your computer or anything. Whatever rows your boat.