Comment Re:XFCE4 (Score 2) 155
I use XFCE as well. I can confirm that it's not a UNIX desktop because it doesn't have any harebrained ideas like "focus follows mouse" or those butt-ugly Motif styling themes.
I run xfce nowadays too. I turn off the harebrained "click to focus" that MacOS and Windows used to do to get the focus follows mouse that I had back in the olwm/twm/fvwm2/CDE days. When I was forced to run Windows , I found apps that could mostly turn on focus follows mouse. I never found one for Macintosh System 7. Its nice to have choices.
You also get your choice of butt-ugly styling themes instead of what Steve Jobs or the UI group at Microsoft decided (Windows 8, everything is a tablet?). FVWM was really the 1st that people did it with. You could do some theming with earlier WM but it was very complicated.
I used to be able to run dual screens with a different window manager on each. It was very handy to have a different set of workspaces for each screen. One screen could have my IDE while the other switched workspaces between other programs/collection of terminals. I couldn't drag between screens, but it was better in every other way.