When Solus released XFCE-Beta I installed it right away. Really loved the look and vibe. But after two weeks I found it too raw/buggy for daily use. I filed numerous reports at devtracker like many did. Then I uninstalled and thought I would wait for months down the road...

....it's now months down the road.

My XFCE question is: 'how is it compared to months ago?'

Thanks for any input

    brent My XFCE question is: 'how is it compared to months ago?'

    My answer is back where you originally asked this, but the shorter answer is, if you haven't used Solus Xfce since the beta, you should take another look now. You won't regret it.

        WetGeek "I think you'll be impressed. I could use it as a daily driver, except that I haven't been able to get it to work with a Bluetooth keyboard (allthough it likes my Bluetooth mouse -- go figure). I prefer the way Plasma handles system settings to the way Xfce handles them, but that's just a matter of familiarity. And if anything, Xfce is even more lively and responsive than Plasma, which is more lively and responsive than Budgie is. (Subjective, I know of course. I haven't quantified those impressions with real benchmarks, which can get complicated.)

        What I'm saying is, if you try the Xfce that Solus is offering these days, you won't regret taking a look at it. Not saying you'll want to replace your beloved Budgie with it, any more than I'd want to replace my beloved Plasma with it, but it will probably change your impression of Xfce. And it beats the crap out of the MATE it replaced."

        thank you for this. I follow devtracker and xfce is under that radar. maybe they have a master thread for separate problems?
        If it is daily driver ready then I am ready to make it a #2 for sure. I'm sure themes have shuffled as well as defaults. Thanks for this take, I was really curious if a lot of bugginess got worked out. Your bluetooth situation made me laugh, we all get the weird ones.


          just curious. did you find stock file manger, stock .txt reader, and stock terminal all sufficient or did you replace them with favorites? I could not easily use the file manager but xfce-terminal was fine. that kind of stuff.

            I'm not a fan of Thunar either, using nemo instead with my Solus XFCE vm installation.

            brent just curious. did you find stock file manger, stock .txt reader, and stock terminal all sufficient

            To be honest, I always replace a stock terminal emulator with Terminology, so I've done the same thing for my Xfce laptop. But I have to admit that I could do anything I need to do with the Xfce terminal. The answer to the rest of your question is,"yes, and yes."

            Not only are the accessories competent, they're also fast and responsive, as I noted before. You really need to take a look for yourself. Others' opinions may not be the same as yours. For me, Xfce makes a good #2 DE. Your mileage may vary, as we all have different features that are important to us.

                WetGeek for me, despite the DE, it's ALWAYS gnome-terminal and gnome-edit for notes. although you are right xfce terminal is fine....but I think it's important to switch out anything stock if you don't like it.
                like seth I can't do Thunar.

                but that stuff's barely a blip on the radar. I do remember the XFCE in Solus experience was Groovy (yes I said Groovy) with hiccups galore--expected of a Beta...so I will take your word that is ready to rock. I'd like to revisit it, I thought it was one of the few distro implementations of XFCE I enjoyed a lot. Sometimes its flat in other distros.
                thanks wetgeek, you submitted bug reports as well so you are probably informed about all the stuff that got taken care of.