• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 days ago

    Was XFCE a thing when the project started?

    If you don’t trust your own hardware or are worried about a session being compromised it also offers some protection - especially if you have a physical read-only switch on your media.

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      Thought XFCE has been a thing for a long time. Even if it wasn’t, neither was resource hogging sugar coated unconfigurable GNOME as we know today.

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        16 hours ago

        Hmm, no, you’re right. XFCE had it’s first release in 1997 vs. 1999 for GNOME. I guess I just didn’t hear about it until GNOME started having controversy.

        neither was resource hogging sugar coated unconfigurable GNOME as we know today.

        Yeah, that might be the real thing. Tails had it’s first release in 2009, and it’s possible they just haven’t moved over yet.