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)

  • Hundun@beehaw.org
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    22 days ago

    Long time i3 user, recently switched to Hyprland+Wayland. I just don’t like mice, don’t enjoy using them, and I find the snappiness and responsiveness of keyboard-centric workflows very fun and enjoyable.

    I am a software developer, and I am very impatient when it comes to my tools: I like my feedback cycles and interactions to be as tight as possible. This limited study from 2015 showed that developers, on average, spend ~26% of their productive time on stuff that is not related to either code editing or comprehension, including 14% spent on UI interactions. Tiling window manager allows me to streamline most of these interactions through hotkey bindings and shell automation, >!so I prefer spending literal months polishing my dotfiles instead!<

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    23 days ago

    KDE for my main PC. Pretty with floating panels, KDE Connect, QT apps are often the best apps in their class and are perfectly integrated (FreeCAD, krita, okular, kdenlive, vlc, dolphin, etc…) And konsole is also very full featured.

    I don’t know what KiCAD uses, but it also seems very well integrated into the KDE desktop unlike most gnome apps.

    XFCE on MX Linux for an old Intel Compute Stick to keep it very usable.

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      22 days ago

      I used that combination, too. But I have settled for only the useless gaps extension for now. PaperWM was behind Gnome version too long and now I have seen there is Niri getting better and better. I will switch someday, I guess. It has the same concept as PaperWM, but is a scrollable/linear WM from the ground up.

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        22 days ago

        I love niri, last time I looked it was not yet on par with paperwm which is why I’m still on it.

  • potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id
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    21 days ago

    On my main laptop I use KDE, it’s smooth and gets the job done. On my tablet, I use GNOME. It runs well, and is touch-optimized. On my other laptop, I use gnome for no particular reason.

  • bruhSoulz@lemmy.ml
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    22 days ago

    I stopped usin em myself cus my laptop aint nun too fancy and i hated watching my system use 1.5+ while not doing jack, so i tried window managers a couple times until it stuck :3 i3 btw

    • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
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      23 days ago

      XFCE4 ! Stable, simple and EndeavourOS’ design is top notch !

      However there are some glitches from time to time. Nothing to serious but when I use Lutris + Wine my desktop bar does some wired shit.

      Also when coming back from sleep I have to “pkill xfce4-session”. Though I’m not totally sure it’s an xfce issue…this could also be Nvidia or X11 related… Didn’t dived to deep.

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    22 days ago

    I have two, KDE on my laptop that runs Arch (btw) which is my tinkering machine, and GNOME/Pop!_OS on the desktop, which is the one other people use and I’m not allowed to break lol.

    Although I might switch the desktop to COSMIC at some point if it doesn’t cause too much trouble.

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    23 days ago

    I’m running MATE on my laptop. It gives me what I need (a task bar, space for some instrumentation, the usual desktop functionality, a way to start applications) and nothing that I don’t care about (wobbling windows, compiz, stuff like that). My DE is a tool; I use tools that don’t get in my way because I have work to do.

    I might give COSMIC a try in a few months, I haven’t decided yet.

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    23 days ago

    Enlightenment. It’s pretty and really fast. Of course you can’t complete with the speed of tile wm. But their development speed is so slow…

    • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
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      22 days ago

      I’ve been experimenting with DEs on a low end machine (celeron n3010, 2gb ram), and so far, I’m still on xfce, but I forgot to test Enlightenment. Gonna give it a try.

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        22 days ago

        I install enlightenment in a asus netbook. Still working. Haven’t updated for so long. ~10 yrs?

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            21 days ago

            Bodhi. I tried to compile by myself first. But it sometimes won’t work. Too much trouble. Bodhi is simply easy and allow me to stay in Ubuntu/Debian based, as long as you don’t need really new packages. But we have flatpak, right?

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    23 days 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.

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        21 days ago

        Not my experience here, especially if extensions are used on gnome, but I hear you. I find xfce to be lightest. Sure, there are other more light wms, but they’re not modern and suitable for daily use.

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    22 days ago

    Typically I don’t use a DE. I’ll go for dmenu + dwm usually if I only want a WM. I find the default bindings and behaviour for the tiling is the most ergonomic when comparing it to other WMs like i3.

    When I do have to get a DE setup then I’ll use XFCE because I like how it stays out of the way and I find it easy to customise.

  • Paola@lemmy.mlB
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    22 days ago

    Currently I am on KDE, but I am an xfce lover. I can’t wait for the next xfce update and for Cosmic.

    I am living KDE almost default. I have the impression that with too much customisation problems come.

    Xfce is rock solid and rock solid after customisation too. It is truly amazing.

    Gnome needs far too many extension for me to be usable. And so I avoid it.

    Cinnamon is great too, but it’s in the middle. If I don’t want to use Wayland, at that point there is xfce.

  • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world
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    23 days 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.