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Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by mort96 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @08:49AM (#17038365)
XUbuntu is great, and the distro I use for my desktop, but I'd also suggest checking out Ubuntu Mate 18.04. It's "old school" similar to XFCE, largely without animations to slow things down, and the 18.04 version replaced the old menu with brisk-menu which is fast, super key activated, and has search (basically it works a lot like XFCE's).

Ubuntu Mate uses gtk 3 and probably in general more modern technology than XFCE, with a similar style. Definitely worth considering.

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Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by H1Supreme on Thursday May 10, 2018 @09:51AM (#17038825)
I've been running a customized version of Mate for a few years. It's sleek and efficient. Had some screen flicker issues at first, but switching window managers to Compiz (I think) fixed it.

I even brought an old Macbook back to life by throwing Mate on it in place of MacOs.

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