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

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

I'm currently using Cinnamon because I thought it would be better than Xfce. While I do think that Cinnamon looks better, there were some minor things that I preferred with Xfce. I want to try Mate and maybe some of the other DEs if I can find a good distro that has them but I may go back to Xfce the next time I install Linux Mint.

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

I use herbstluftwm. The configuration is straightforward and it fits my minimal needs.

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

I use KDE plasma 5 atm and i planning on an upgrade to 6 soon; but it's my daily driver so I've dragging my feet on it for a couple weeks now.

What happened when tried troubleshooting those problems you had?

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

What broke with tracker3 ?

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

@BCsven @Mwa I disabled tracker and use plocate from a shell to find stuff. The reason, tracker's crawl of the disk space is extremely inefficient, but plocate keeps track of things like directory update times so does not recrawl a directory if the time stamps have not changed, thus saving a lot of disk I/O.

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[–] Mwa 1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Idk,it would not run anymore.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Gnome and Cosmic. Gnome 'cause of simplicity and Cosmic because of Rust.

!I am a Rust programmer and I love this language!<

[–] Mwa -2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I found some negative press about cosmic which can be valid or not.
https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-on-cosmic

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

GNOME because it's the only good option that looks modern and has proper development. Excuses of KDE fanboys that GNOME team makes weird decisions are not accepted.

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