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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] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I use Gnome, but I just wanted to say Cinnamon is fantastic (probably my first choice if I weren't on a laptop)

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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 16 hours ago (2 children)

Reminds me of how lxqt uses openbox for its windowing.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

KDE Plasma.

GNOME kind of looks nice but is too strict on customization.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I can agree gnome is strict I don't really like this design philosophy which can be found here.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Gnome.

With NoMachine to my Windows Host, hot keys go to the host as intended.

Rustdesk can't do it in any config and they don't care at this stage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

KDE Plasma because it's the one I like. If it disappeared tomorrow, I'd use Xfce.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

XFCE. it's dumb, simple, it gives you a panel to access your programs, your desktop icons, and nothing else. I just want my computer to let me do my things, not have a built-in 'brew a cup of coffee' button

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Sway on a chromebook with 4gb ram, sway on thinkpad t430, xfce on my gf's laptop, and gnome on my gaming rig that will go soon either cosmic or just sway. For me sway is thewinner. Sway with me... Marimba... Lalala

Edit: also gnome on the kichen pc with touch. Gnome is the only one that works fully on touch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

I use hyprland with KDE as my fall back.

My hyprland config is 95% stable but some apps give me a hard time, so I'll just run them in KDE.

I find KDE just works. With a baby, things need to work more often than not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Plasma, but I'll be moving to cosmic as soon as it enables auto power off of monitors on idle

[–] [email protected] 20 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Gnome. It just works out of the box and I can fly through it using the keyboard and touchpad without having to configure it first.
I've done the whole song and dance with tiling WMs, or going through all of KDE's settings until it was perfect, but I just can't be bothered anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

KDE Plasma. I like having a familiar start menu and keyboard shortcuts

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Gnome on one machine, LXDE on another.

I use Gnome on my main laptop, a Thinkpad P50. I bought it with a dock thinking I'd use it at my desk and on the sofa but it's a bit of a beast so that stays on my desk and I use an L440 with LXDE on the sofa. Considering trying LCARS on the sofa machine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Hmm I have a question, why not lxqt its more actively maintained then lxde.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

XFCE as I like the look of the classic Windows layout. Might eventually try out KDE for Wayland support but there's something about the simplicity of XFCE which I love.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Xfce is getting wayland support next update tho.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

I'm old, I come from old X11R4 time, motif, mwm, twm, fvwm, things from previous century. In modern Linux I used mostly gnome, and Cinnamon for a few years and tried to love it but cannot, I finally went back to Xfce because it works, it's simple, neat, nice, I have no icon on my desktop, I have a kind of windows 3 setup: a startup menu (and some quick launches), the window bar, the notification area with time etc

I'm using MX Linux for maybe 8 years now with Xfce

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Nice desktop, reminds me of cinnamon.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

GNOME. Love the simplicity!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I used enlightenment for something like a decade. When Gnome hit the big time I used Gnome because it looked Nice and was very flexible. I went back to Mac and Windows Land for a bit, when I came back I went Gnome again. I just screw around for a day looking and picking plugins and fighting with it to get it exactly how I wanted it. After fighting with one of the older plugins that mustn't doing what I wanted to do I saw somebody mentioned using KDE. I tried KDE and sure enough every single thing I was plugging the hell out of Gnome for was a default setting in KDE. I'm currently running Plasma. I must say that Cinnamon's not bad either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Oh yeah I was also running gnome with alot of plugins after a fedora update, boom tracker3 does not wanna work anymore, kde(fedora and cachyos) it's in the desktop no relying on 3rd party plugins and cinnamon I can agree with you, I think of cinnamon gnome done right,with a windows 10 like ui.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

GNOME. Eagerly waiting for cosmic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

I like gnome also. I'm going to try cosmic de but probably won't use it full time.

I do use the PaperWM and dash to dock extensions, so it isn't stock gnome. I normally don't like extensions or addons but these are well done and it seems like they have staying power.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Same. Gnome currently but will certainly be trying Cosmic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

I think that's what popos comes with, never looked into what the differences are between them or why one would want to switch

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

Depends on the computer I run. On fast computers (more than 5,000 passmark cpu points), i use gnome on whatever distro. On mid-speed computers (1000 to 5000 points), I use linux mint with cinnamon. On very old computers (400-1000), I use debian with XFce.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Xfce... Because I donno, been using it for many years

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

Ngl I like xfce because its Snappy, even on modern pcs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Always ran xfce on my old used thinkpads!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Xfce is light and crisp! Looks great and works well with my myriad low-end computers 🐁

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Sway. Very customiseable and extremely snappy

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Gaming PC: GNOME (it works fine and I don't care about much else there)

Laptop: dwl (dwm for Wayland) and suckless tools. Ultra lightweight and comfy for browsing and watching videos. Usually at the same time.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I used Enlightment for the last few years, but switched this year to XFCE because i like the look more. I'm using old-as-fuck-hardware and both DEs work good on my machines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

I agree the enlightment ui is not good looking ngl it made me not use it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I use Mate. When I first started using a Desktop in addition to terminals, it was with Redhat 6.1, Redhat came with Gnome-2, I got used to it. I didn't like the changes made in Gnome-3, so I switched to Mate which retained, or at least had the option to be configured to look as I was used to it, save for more refined graphics. It also works well remotely so that's another reason I use it as much of my work involves remote acess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I heard of the gnome 3 drama, gnome 2 was forked blah blah blah.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

The only desktop that has a clipboard feature(superkey + v) I love, most of the desktop I see don't have it and the clipboard show up as a system tray app.

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