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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] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Xfce

I've daily driven every major DE except KDE (GNOME, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon) and I always ended up switching back to xfce. I'm not a fan of GNOME's workflow and since it's not that customizable without extensions, that made me switch from it very quickly. I used Cinnamon on Mint for a few months and while the experience was mostly fine, it sometimes felt a bit laggy. As for MATE, while I love the GNOME 2 layout and it's a relatively lightweight DE, I encountered plenty of visual bugs there and I could very easily replicate that GNOME 2 layout on Xfce (without a system menu, but still).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

KDE Plasma and I refuse to use anything else on Linux unless there's no choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Besides, Plasma can look like anything else anyway, so why switch?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

I keep it default but with dark mode. And that's perfect for me. I wouldn't want it to look or function any other way.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

KDE Plasma. I just like it. It seems to have options to do what I want, for the most part. There's some things I wish it had, like a way to programmatically get the active window under Wayland, so StreamController could automatically change pages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

KDE Plasma 5.

It's default on Slackware =P

[–] Mwa 2 points 18 hours ago

Slackware still on kde 5 makes sense

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

KDE Plasma. I am not good with making edits/tweaks to desktop environments and really like how MX has it set up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

gnome currently because nearly everything i use is designed for gnome and looks mismatched on other DEs. but the gnome workflow largely feels like a prison.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Wood. Usually medium density particle board.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Nobody uses cinnamon? Honestly - I really like using cinnamon with Debian. I heard that they promised not to fuck with the UI for no reason unlike... everyone! @Mwa Cinnamon is a fairly nice, easy to use desktop - I don't really care which is better, but if they change it, you have to re-learn it. Top tip for UI design - don't think that your users want to re-learn how to interact with your UI - they might go outside, or elsewhere.

[–] Mwa 1 points 18 hours ago

Yeah i like the ui.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Xfce4.

y tho

It's inexpensive on resources while leaving me nothing to really... need extra, I suppose. It's old so there's thousands of themes and ways to set it up, and it just feels like home. The speed of the animations and defaults to everything has a very stock Windows XP feel to the desktop despite it looking like nearly anything. The system doesn't get in the way of programs from other desktops or setups in mind and always steps aside.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

On my main laptop I use KDE, it's smooth and gets the job done. On my tablet, I use GNOME. It runs well, and is touch-optimized. On my other laptop, I use gnome for no particular reason.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I have two, KDE on my laptop that runs Arch (btw) which is my tinkering machine, and GNOME/Pop!_OS on the desktop, which is the one other people use and I'm not allowed to break lol.

Although I might switch the desktop to COSMIC at some point if it doesn't cause too much trouble.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm an XFCE guy. I find XFCE to be nice and fast. It's decently light - not the absolute lightest, but most of its installation size is from dependencies you were going to install anyway like GTK.

For now, it's still on xorg, but I think they're working on it.

Xfce

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Gnome on the laptop, its keyboard and touch gestures are the best for notebooks. I also like its simple design and reliability.

KDE on desktop, I'd use gnome, but kwin has more gaming relevant features.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

LXDE/LXQT because I grew up using potato computers and now I can't stand it if my DE uses more than 2% of my hardware resources

though I am currently using KDE because for fuck knows what reason, Kubuntu is the only prepackaged Linux I've been able to get to boot on my weird Samsung laptop and I haven't bothered to gut KDE and replace it with LXQT yet

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

KDE. Because of its simplicity. Unsarcastically.

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

I agree. KDE out of the box just looks solid and works. Especially when i came from Windows it was nice to know where basic functions are, and then slowly learn the cool stuff. But generally i like things to just be tidy and "bland" in the sense of not customized crazily.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

XFCE. Because I'm an idiot, and all my computers are old.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

Gnome. I actually started with KDE. It's a good DE, but it's got so many options that I had choice fatigue. I constantly tweaked my taskbar instead of focusing on what I wanted to do. And it was easy to get it to a "looks broken" state

When I tried Gnome, I fell in love with it. I love the unique workflow, lack of distractions, the modern adwaita design, etc. Everything felt so polished

That being said, I don't like how Gnome devs seemingly can't agree on anything with other desktop environments. And I don't like how they refuse to support server-side window decorations. Like, I agree with them that CSD are better than SSD, but it would be reasonable to support SSD for toolkits that haven't/don't want to implement CSD themselves, right?

I'm excited for Cosmic. It looks like it combines the best of Gnome and KDE, and the devs don't have the “my way or the highway” mindset

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

KDE. It's customizable without adding lots of weirdness. It's got a solid set of included tools like Dolphin and Konsole. It's generally very stable and visually attractive.

No shade to other DEs. I've tried lots of them, I even have a couple of alternative DEs I'll log into when they are useful (i3 is great if I am doing something repetitive). But KDE is just the most comfortable for me for daily use.

The non-Gnome COSMIC DE that System76 has been developing is looking really promising though. I have the alpha on a spare laptop and find it very functional.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

KDE, it does what I want it to do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I stopped usin em myself cus my laptop aint nun too fancy and i hated watching my system use 1.5+ while not doing jack, so i tried window managers a couple times until it stuck :3 i3 btw

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Xmonad. I prefer tiling window managers, & I tried Sway but I can’t do color work without proper color management… something Wayland doesn’t support. Thus, I moved back to my old Xmonad config awaiting Wayland to get its shit together after years saying color management was around the corner & distros still adopting it despite not being ready.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

I love my Xmonad. I haven't customized it except for one thing for fullscreen windows. I have no widgets or toolbars or desktop icons or anything besides dmenu as a launcher and xterm for everything else. And I love it. However I have some subtle graphics issues like screen tearing when watching certain 4k content, hidpi scaling issues that I could never resolve for all applications and sometimes my GPU doesn't like my TV (which is my main monitor). These are likely the fault of nouveau, but I wonder if Wayland will fix them.

I really wish XMonad would support Wayland. I don't need it to, but gnome on wayland was just really really smooth. Maybe I can set up another window manager with the exact same key bindings on wayland, since like I said I don't customize it at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Sway, will try the new cosmic once its in beta

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

KDE for its Wayland performance and features and occasionally I switch to hyprland if I need a more focused work environment.
In the past I used Cinnamon but it became ever more buggier on Arch and due to lack of Wayland support still it was a dead end anyway.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 days ago (4 children)

kde plasma, it's fast, it's pretty, it's handy, it has all the keyboard shortcuts.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

I love KDE. It's got easy to use power user features and is very robust.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Long time i3 user, recently switched to Hyprland+Wayland. I just don't like mice, don't enjoy using them, and I find the snappiness and responsiveness of keyboard-centric workflows very fun and enjoyable.

I am a software developer, and I am very impatient when it comes to my tools: I like my feedback cycles and interactions to be as tight as possible. This limited study from 2015 showed that developers, on average, spend ~26% of their productive time on stuff that is not related to either code editing or comprehension, including 14% spent on UI interactions. Tiling window manager allows me to streamline most of these interactions through hotkey bindings and shell automation, >!so I prefer spending literal months polishing my dotfiles instead!<

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