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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)

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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] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm a long time supporter of Xfce, but I have to say Cinnamon these days. It's light on resources while being feature rich. Also it's the default on Mint and it just works.

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

I use XFCE, but I like Cinnamon too. I use Nemo and Xed instead of Thunar and...whatever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Gnome. It looks so much more modern, but I would like a layout like Plasmas more than the gnome one

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

I currently use GNOME and would continue to but if it were a low spec machine, probably icewm or jwm.

y'all sure like KDE though 🤢

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

I have literally been using the same build of dwm as my desktop env since 2007.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

Mint

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