That was a bad mistake to begin with. The file manager isn't simply an application; it's the very backbone of your desktop environment.Petermint wrote:Last time I used XFCE, I ended up replacing the file manager
Even installing another full-blown file manager next to the existing one is bad, because that tends to start behaving like a backbone as well, which creates conflicts. If you want a second file manager, install a stand-alone one like Gnome Commander or Double Commander.
Not so. Xfce is ideal for noticeably increasing the performance of much younger computers; this is useful in almost any case in which one doesn't need bling-bling or advanced features.Petermint wrote:it would have to be ten years old to need the lower resource usage.