How to make Xfce look like almost any desktop you want
Panel Profiles handles the heavy lifting, once you've installed the plugins it expects
PART 1 Xfce is one of the oldest and smallest desktops, but it's also one of the most malleable: it can look and work like multiple other OSes. Best of all, an optional extra Xfce tool automates away most of the configuration.
Xfce has been around for 30 years, undergoing several facelifts while remaining one of the most configurable and lightweight Linux desktops. It started off looking like CDE, then it evolved into something more like Windows 95 before developing its own identity.
The good news, though, is that you don't have to spend hours right-clicking and twiddling options to give it a whole new look. It has its own tool for this, called Panel Profiles. It's an optional extra that does the same job as Zorin OS's Appearance tool: it lets you...
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