&gt; <i>Xfce with XUbuntu is very much like the olden days of Ubuntu&#x2F;Gnome2</i><p>I had RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 6.5 forced on me in a workplace, and it has Gnome2. Having that side-by-side with recent xubuntu on my laptop, Xfce is way ahead, much better than Gnome2.