On 15.09.2011, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
LXDE can easily be set up to have essentially the same look-and-feel as Gnome 2. Also, it's lightweight design seems to have led to a good performance increase at least on my machine.
LXDE is great, but the file manager pcmanfm is not only annoying, it's more buggy than it works properly. Especially the sorting behaviour is sh*t in my eyes. XFCEs thunar is rock solid and fast.
Yes, I know you can replace the file manager in LXDE, but not for the desktop.