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What desktop enviroment do you use and why? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by [email protected] 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 so yh idk if these happened to anybody)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

After trying mostly everything, I always come back to my "custom desktop": (openbox + xfce4-panel + thunar + xfce4-terminal + dunst) .. for the last 15 years or so. It doesn't get in the way, is fast AF, it takes very very little ram/cpu (4.5 Mb !!) and it has everything I need (even tiling via keyboard). It's VERY customizable and it does as I tell. No crashes, no weirdeness. It just works. I will probably move to labwc in a future, just because.. wayland. And now I'm about to use it on a steam deck... it's gonna be fun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Same. Didn't know about labwc, will look imto it when I switch to Wayland someday!

Did you come off a Crunchbang distro as well? 🙂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Reminds me of how lxqt uses openbox for its windowing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

AFAIK, lxde uses openbox, and lxqt uses xfwm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Lxqt uses openbox, I tested it, and am pretty sure lxde ships its on window manager.