Tested TROMjaro XFCE on my main machine via the live usb. First of all...the beauty of Linux to be able to test it like that. Everything seems to work great. Function keys, my hardware, and so forth. Snappy and fast. Now the way it handles the external monitor I have is a bit weird, different than what I was used to. You see I use my external monitor almost like a "tv", where I stream videos from our tromnews.com and such. Basically a Firefox window with such goodies + when I need to add some file manager window or such windows that I need to work in parallel on two screens.

And my laptop is where the work is done. And I use at least 4 workspaces: my main one with the servers and such, TROM II one with Kdenlive, the file manager, and so forth; TROMjaro with our git, virtual boxes, and so forth; and VideoNeat with whatever I need for it. Workspaces are amazing and I am amazed not many seem to be using them. But they are great cause you can focus on one project at a time.

Now in XFCE the external monitor also has workspaces and are glued to the main display....so say I am watching a very nice video from tromnews.com while doing some CSS fixing to TROMjaro on the TROMjaro workspace. If I switch to another workspace then my external monitor also switches and I lose that nice video I was watching. The way around it is to make that Firefox window from my external display "visible on all workspaces" - right click and do it.

Anywas, from my tests I can fix these small personal inconveniences. XFCE is somewhat different from Gnome in many regards, so maybe getting used to it is even better. Embrace the new!

Probably tomorrow I'll do the switch :D. I need a relaxed mind and time to make sure I can properly switch and not lose any of my files.

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