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biggunz on Dec 15, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: XFCE 4.18

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.

nortonham on Dec 15, 2022 [–]

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

geon on Dec 15, 2022 | [–]

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

nortonham on Dec 15, 2022 | | [–]

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

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