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If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it's Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)...etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.

Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the "Flagship Manjaro version". I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.

After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.

What about you guys?

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

Gnome but thats because im a big time laptop user. The way i use my laptops works really well on gnome. I hide the top bar, and have whatever im doing taking up the entire screen, and then just use gestures to navigate it. Side to side 3 finger swipe switches desktops, 3 finger swipe up takes you to task view, and with the small screen id hate to have some sort of taskbar.

If i was using a mouse i would probably want something more windows-esque in its design which i think KDE does better. So for a desktop id probably go with that.

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

My Spain just gave me an old netbook, you think I could use gnome effectively, or go for something lighter?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

i have no idea not even sure what a netbook is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

No optical drive type thing

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

Small laptop. Think n 3000 intel

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I mean u can try lol might be a bit heavy tho