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I've been more and more impressed with XFCE, purely on a usability, get out of my way, support my workflow basis.

It's taken the place for LXQt/LXDE for me. The one notable negative is that I've had a lot of trouble getting bluetooth earphones to work properly.

I'm wondering if that would that be an issue with blueman tools and not XFCE, per se?

https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman

It is likely, but the same set of utilities work on Linux Mint flawlessly.

I've tried a fair bit of troubleshooting with no luck and eventually given up on getting it running on XFCE.

The versions are the same? Maybe its time for a bug report to blueman or your distro.

I mean Linux Mint is a distro while XFCE is a desktop environment... I'm sure if you installed XFCE on Mint your bluetooth earbuds would work just fine, and that bluetooth would be broken on your current distro regardless of what desktop environment you used.

Yes, and I will consider the Linux Mint XFCE edition at the next fresh install opportunity.

I hope LXQt gets cleaned up, because I think Qt is better then Gtk and would like a lightweight WM. But, last I tried it (six months ago? A year ago?), all sorts of basic things were broken, like multi-monitor support. I had "upgraded" from an old LXDE version, and the result was so unusable that I had to switch over to XFCE. XFCE is much better than I'd remembered it being though, so I will probably stick with it. Been very happy with XFCE.

Going from LXDE to LXQt was such a disappointment to me. LXDE was really good and polished (in my opinion, for the audience it targeted).

I like XFCE a lot because it is well thought out and highly customisable.

I use KDE these days largely because it was easier to get a tiling extension working. I also use a lot of KDE apps so I get the slightly better integrated too.

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