My fave reviewer, Jesse Smith at DW liked the current MGA XFCE pretty well.
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260803#mageia
Mageia manages to be easy to use without getting in the way,
provides most common open source software in its repositories, and
has a fantastic control centre. The performance was excellent during
my trial, while using Xfce, and there were no serious problems.
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Mike Easter
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