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I start: the most important thing is not the desktop, it's the package manager.

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

See I've run into an issue now where I like and am used to GNOME, but I also want to try a tiling WM and doesn't seem like there's really a good way to do that in gnome

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

You can install the tiling WM and try it seperately. Might even be possible to combine them too, but that might get pretty involved and hacky since Gnome doesn't like it when you stray from "the path" that they deem correct.

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

I'd probably just do one or the other, don't want to be using nonstandard stuff within my non-standard stuff

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

I know XFCE is a popular choice for people who want to add a tiling WM. That was a combo that I heard about quite a bit in the past if that's something you'd wanna try. XFCE + i3 might be nice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh you poor soul. :(