Xfce on a Gateway 9300 Solo

I had a wonderful time installing Xfce through Arch on my sister’s Gateway Solo 9300 this weekend.  Before doing so, my only experience with the desktop environment had been through Xubuntu (not a good experience).  After a quick inspect I found her hard drive was dead on arrival (and violently clicking I might add).  Fortunately, the IT guys from my place of work were nice enough to part ways with a 10 GB 2.5in drive from their old parts drawer.  With that problem solved I pondered over which OS to install.  On her older, and much bigger, drive the Gateway laptop had housed Windows XP.  Now I’m sure I could have shoe-horned XP back on, but with all the service packs and virus blocking bloat I figured something like Xfce could fit this 600 Mhz PIII much nicer.  I wanted the box to be as light as possible… so Arch wins my vote hands down.  I even added the new Arch logo to the start menu.  I’m sure she could care less, but I think that’s hot!  Here’s a screenshot of her “new” computer.   

“littlelappy” is using Kazehakase for a web browser, Audacious for music, Abiword for word processing, Deluge for torrenting and Mirage for image viewing.  Most of what is on this machine follows K.Mandla’s software blog entry.  I am really digging Xfce on Arch; in fact I’ll be a bit bummed when the Gateway is given back to its owner.