Note Updated on June 3rd 2014 and now includes LXQt and Unity. For the last 9 months or so I’ve spent my spare time working with the MATE Desktop Team. Every so often, via the various on-line MATE communities, the topic of how “light weight” MATE is when compared to other desktop environments crops up and quite often Xfce is suggested as a lighter alternative. After all MATE and Xfce both provide a traditional desktop environment based on GTK+ so this suggestion is sensible. But is Xfce...
