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Re:Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet by pan69 on Saturday December 26, 2015 @03:41PM (#10795210)
Since the Ubuntu/Unity/Gnome3 disaster happened I switched to XUbuntu and I have been extremely happy with it. Xfce with XUbuntu is very much like the olden days of Ubuntu/Gnome2.

The only real issue with XUbuntu is the lack of window resize control. The window borders are a single pixel wide and it can be extremely frustrating to resize a window. The only way to reasonably get it done is by using the either one of the top window corners but if you use the left window corner you have to be careful not to accidentally close the window.

Other than that, super happy with XUbuntu!

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Re:Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet by shonn on Saturday December 26, 2015 @04:00PM (#10795295)
Different styles have different window border widths. This aggravated me until I found out.

Settings->Appearance->Style.

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Re:Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet by sampo on Saturday December 26, 2015 @03:51PM (#10795257)
> Xfce with XUbuntu is very much like the olden days of Ubuntu/Gnome2

I had RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 6.5 forced on me in a workplace, and it has Gnome2. Having that side-by-side with recent xubuntu on my laptop, Xfce is way ahead, much better than Gnome2.

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Re:Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet by sampo on Saturday December 26, 2015 @04:47PM (#10795415)
> to resize a window

Also alt + mouse right button works for resizing.

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