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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 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

I miss old Gnome. I wish they'd stuck with the old Gnome 2 design philosophy but breathed new modern design principals into it, instead of trying to go the Ubuntu Unity route. Maybe something like Cinnamon but even more flexible and feature-rich.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Use Mate. It is based on the old Gnome 2

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I was waiting for someone to say that.

    I like that Mate is a thing, but like I said, I'm looking for something thats based on it but as if its had the same 20 years of enhancements everything else got.

    The closest thing to that I've found is quite literally KDE. So I use KDE.

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