Finally, no more sluggishness!

[Mazza558]

I just decided to try Xfce instead of gnome, and what a world of difference! No more lag when switching tabs in Firefox, compiz fusion runs smoothly, 3D applications actually run well, programs load within a second of clicking... My PC is no slouch, but Xfce as actually as fast a XP for me now! Yay :)

[-grubby]

GNOME also seems to run slow on my computer for some reason....XFCE is blazing fast!

[kadath]

Xfce is what GNOME should've been: Fast, modular, customizable and mostly devoid of the "users are ignorant" mentality GNOME tends to have.

[HermanAB]

I use XFCE or IceWM, with the file manager Konqueror from KDE. That gives me the best of both worlds: An immensely powerful file/ftp/smb/sftp/fish/ldap browser (it even does http too...) and blazing speed.

The window managers of both KDE and Gnome are absolutely atrociously slow and should be expunged (an ordinary delete is to kindly).

[RAV TUX]

I just decided to try Xfce instead of gnome, and what a world of difference! No more lag when switching tabs in Firefox, compiz fusion runs smoothly, 3D applications actually run well, programs load within a second of clicking... My PC is no slouch, but Xfce as actually as fast a XP for me now! Yay :)

If you want even more speed and efficiency try e17 in Xubuntu.

[nismoskys]

I tried searching the forums .. How can i install Xfce on my regular Ubuntu? is it as easy as sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop?

[-grubby]

I tried searching the forums .. How can i install Xfce on my regular Ubuntu? is it as easy as sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop?

yes it is!