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What desktop enviroment do you use and why? (self.linux)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Mwa to c/[email protected]

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So a few months back I asked about you guys os in c/asklemmy, so this time I wanna ask about your desktops you use on this same account.
(I use kde but plan to move to cinnamon I find kde buggy and gnome tracker3 randomly broke for no reason + themeing so yh idk if these happened to anybody)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

COSMIC most of the time and then gnome as a fallback when I run into any temporary issues I can't work around.

I do this with a custom bluebuild image I made that uses ublue (fedora 41) as a base and then added cosmic on top along with some other layers that I need/want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How’s your experience with cosmic? I’m using a very similar setup with a custom bluebuild image pulling from secureblue. Currently on Gnome but impatiently waiting for cosmic to hit some level of stability

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It depends on what you would consider stable. I would install it alongside gnome for now and try it out. You can just leave it on your system getting updates while you use gnome and just pop in every once and a while. It's up to you if you want to enable cosmic-greeter and disable gdm for your login page, but if you want stability, just stick with gdm for now.