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Whonix Anonymous OS

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Whonix Anonymous OS shifting to fully support xfce by default

Hi There,

Its good that we are shifting to use xfce as we were using KDE but its really slow to run it as VM distro, so i hope this will be enjoyable for xfce fans:

(testing phase)

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http://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-xfce- … nt/6213/66

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http://forums.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xg … nt/6213/66

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Re: Whonix Anonymous OS shifting to fully support xfce by default

Hello and welcome.

Good news about the switch to Xfce.
I'm curious. What were you finding slow about KDE? Was memory allocation to the VM causing the poor performance?

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Whonix Anonymous OS

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Re: Whonix Anonymous OS shifting to fully support xfce by default

Thank You!

Well yeah seems to be that , actually the whole VM or Tor Browser will freeze up due to just opening 8 tabs in it. which is really annoying , plus it needs 1 GB ram at least to run properly which really hell for a VM distro for old machines.

Whonix Anonymous OS

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Re: Whonix Anonymous OS shifting to fully support xfce by default

The Big Announcement Whonix Virtualbox with XFCE interface and Command Line Interface (CLI) 14.0.0.9.6 Stable Released:

Clearnet Link
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/VirtualBox

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http://www.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbe … VirtualBox

Whonix Anonymous OS

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Re: Whonix Anonymous OS shifting to fully support xfce by default

Whonix KVM 14.0.0.9.6 XFCE Released

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https://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-kvm- … eased/6477

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http://forums.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xg … eased/6477

Whonix Anonymous OS

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Re: Whonix Anonymous OS shifting to fully support xfce by default

Whonix 15 has been Released

Clearnet link:

https://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-15-h … eased/7616

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http://forums.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xg … eased/7616

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Whonix Anonymous OS

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Re: Whonix Anonymous OS shifting to fully support xfce by default

We are happy to announce the stable release of whonix 16 (based on debian 11 bullseye) for all supported hypervisors:

- VirtualBox

https://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-16-h … ease/12297

- KVM

https://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-16-0 … ease/12264

- Qubes/Xen

https://forums.whonix.org/t/qubes-whoni … ease/12465

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Re: Whonix Anonymous OS shifting to fully support xfce by default

You should consider switching XFCE out for a desktop that uses less memory and has good traditional design, such as LXDE.

Whonix Anonymous OS

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Re: Whonix Anonymous OS shifting to fully support xfce by default

You should consider switching XFCE out for a desktop that uses less memory and has good traditional design, such as LXDE.

If xfce gonna use wayland we gonna stick to it, memory consumption good with good gui (LXDE has some horrible gui configs, some stuff need to be changed manually similar to cli which is a bad idea for new users), But if xfce not gonna support wayland we gonna ditch it and see something else.

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Re: Whonix Anonymous OS shifting to fully support xfce by default

We are delighted to announce the stable release of Whonix 17 (based on Debian 12 Bookworm) for all supported hypervisors:

VirtualBox, KVM, Qubes (Xen)

https://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-17-h … ease/16922