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I have tried out Gnome, KDE, Lxqt and Xfce on a regular desktop and all of them feel nice. I haven't tried many DE's on a laptop.
Are there any particular DE's you like on a laptop, because of things like power consumption and efficiency that would not come normally into consideration for a desktop?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

If you haven't tried them, I recommend giving them a try. They all have something to offer.

I don't use Gnome, for example. People knock on it a bit BUT a large group of people swear by it for workflow.

KDE Plasma is the dream for anyone who likes to tweak settings. I used it on my laptop for a long time and it is very convenient. It also manages power and monitor settings very well. In terms of memory usage it is now similar to XFCE.

XFCE is perfect for people who don't like change. It is a slow moving DE; tried and true.

Right now I am using LXQt. Not sure why I decided to do that. It looks ok. It is fast and light. That's it's claim to fame. It can be used with different WMs which is nice.

Are there any particular DE’s you like on a laptop, because of things like power consumption and efficiency that would not come normally into consideration for a desktop?

I can't say I've ever looked into it. But, I found that KDE handled things very well. I used my laptop for full workdays, getting 11 hours out of it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I started with ubuntu then mint on desktop and then vm. I hated Gnome in those days, prefering KDE or XFCE (even i3wm). Now that my laptop is on EOS, I tried Gnome again and it's much better for use with a trackpad. So yeah, different DEs for different tastes/uses/systems.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you.

If you haven't tried them, I recommend giving them a try. They all have something to offer.

I have tried them on desktop and in most cases, I did not have any serious issue with them. I was thinking which one would be better optimised for laptops.

KDE handled things very well

I'm on KDE now. It's good. Was thinking whether there are any DE's that are specifically recommended for laptops, for efficiency or ease of use.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

i3
the less I need a mouse on a laptop, the better

edit: ok, you specifically asked for a full fledged DE and not just a WM. well, I picked what I needed and with Manjaro i3 as base, I had a nice place to start

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

full fledged de with tiling ?

spoilerkde with Krohnkite

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

i3 just feels much faster. can't change back to anything more bloated at the moment. It wrecks my nerves waiting for a window to open on other DEs/WMs - although it's often not much of a difference.

I'm very happy with my current setup. would like to try sway, but I think Wayland/sway isn't completely there yet.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

haha I was being half serious here, as fun as I have with kronkite on my space heater, its is a layer of bloat on top of a mountain of bloat so not what you want in op's case

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Tiling window managers like i3 are imho nice for laptops, since they do not waste any space and can be easily controlled via keyboard. Takes a while to get used to them, however.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I agree with this! I run i3 for all my builds and it’s great!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

XFCE minimal but good looking. You could also go for MATE or Cinnamon..

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

i3 and never looked back!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

xfce since it came default with eos and its pretty lightweight

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Of the ones I tried, my top 3 would be cinnamon, budgie, and kde. KDE is probably the best bet for modern features ATM, cinnamon for simplicity.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

On laptops Gnome has a big advantage in the multitouch gestures for the touchpad, and as everyone says it's pretty polished. But lately I've been using KDE since it offers a lot more functionality and customization out of the box. Most of it's apps are like a swiss army knife and I love that. KDE is also catching up in the multitouch gesture department.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Plasma on Wayland has got multitouch gestures as well.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Plasma. I have it configured to match my workflow.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm the type of person who gets tired of a DE after using it for too long, so I'm using Budgie right now and I really like it. However XFCE is pretty nice, too, it's what I used to use.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

From what I hear, budgie may not get further updates.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I recently switched to xfce.
I used KDE exclusively since 2004. That's a very long time but KDE Plasma in combination with nvidia got worse, what felt like, every single day over the last years, so it finally came to the point where I had no choice to look for something that works better.
Super happy with xfce after I set it up almost exactly like my KDE setup. Sure there are some thing that are not as "well rounded" than some of the excellent Plasma features but over all it works great!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@aMalayali KDE - desktop or laptop.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

GNOME, despite the critiques it receives it's the most polished one and the one that gives me less problems

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Gnome hands down has the best laptop experience. If you follow the intended workflow of using tiled windows and many workspaces. You can get to a very large number of windows, without getting lost, even with just the laptop screen.

Additionally the paradigm does translate well to a desktop for the times you are docked.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The only problem is that it only supports half tiling, which is quite annoying if you are using large screens.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I like Enlightenment. It uses 400 MB of RAM on my old laptop/

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Cinnamon for me, It looks like old Windows

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Cinnamon is great. I just did a fresh install of Mint on an older laptop.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I use kde on my laptop

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm a KDE guy and use it myself on my notebook, but GNOME with its multitouch gestures and polished (if a little inflexible) workflow is also an excellent fit.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

sway, the i3 clone for Wayland. I'm really happy with it, even on my Intel iGPU + Nvidia GPU laptop.

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