Switching back to GNOME from Xfce because it’s faster?
Strangely enough, it appears that I’m going to be switching back to GNOME from Xfce due to performance. For whatever reason, screen redraw time after changing virtual desktops in Xfce was noticeably slow.
Thankfully I have coworkers with identical workstation hardware, who quickly demonstrated that it wasn’t my hardware that was lacking. A quick trial of GNOME showed an enormous increase in perceived render time during virtual desktop switches.
So much for Xfce being GNOME-lite, eh?