Hacker News Reader

> Market share will continue to decline until wayland support is added, no matter how great any new features are.

It might be that they are not interested on "Market share". Or they are but not enough to justify the work. I'm sure they would be glad to accept a pull request.

View on HN

I had to abandon XFCE due to some issue with aging XFCE4 libraries and high cpu problems, switched to KDE Plasma 5.x,. got 50% longer battery lifetime and havent looked back.

They need to focus on these kinds of problems, not on adding new features, otherwise I would have stayed.

what about a DE's libraries would make it drain so much battery life?

Does xfce do a lot of the graphics in software? That is very inefficient on modern hardware.

I have no idea, I was asking because it's not something I know enough about.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com