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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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.
Gnome on laptop, KDE on desktop. I go back and forth with those DEs.
GNOME because of PaperWM
xfce4. Stable as hell. X11. Can move windows around using just some keypresses.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
KDE Plasma because it’s the one I like. If it disappeared tomorrow, I’d use Xfce.
Xfce. Partly because I’ve used it for a long time, but mostly because it does what I need it to do and little else.
KDE Plasma.
GNOME kind of looks nice but is too strict on customization.
Yeah, I can agree gnome is strict I don’t really like this design philosophy which can be found here.
Incredible. I guess I have a list of apps to avoid now. Thanks.
Yw
Xmonad with XFCE in no-desktop mode.
I can use the xfce tools to configure things like mouse and screen settings, but visually it’s just xmonad.
KDE Plasma. I like having a familiar start menu and keyboard shortcuts
I currently use Gnome on my laptop, but I’ve toyed with returning to KDE for a while. I used KDE briefly back in the v3 and v4 days felt like it was a bit bloated compared to Gnome v1 and v2. Cinnamon is nice but a bit heavyweight on graphics. I should probably return to XFCE or Mate.
GNOME because it’s the only good option that looks modern and has proper development. Excuses of KDE fanboys that GNOME team makes weird decisions are not accepted.
They do make some strange choices. But yeah, I agree. Also, on Gnome, everything else feels a bit rough around the edges.
I like both for different reasons. I’m hoping Cosmic will be a good blend of features from both, once it’s ready for the general public
how about the other non big desktops (eg, mate,cinnamon,budgie,lxqt,etc)
Mate, lxqt and even xfce look very old. I know they can’t have fancy effects but I think it’s weird they don’t come with a modern theme. They could make them look at least like Cinnamon. Even Windows 10 didn’t have rounded corners and looked great, with or without blur. Simplicity can look good imo.
Cinnamon is great but it’s GTK3 and a little bit older in terms of design (though it’s more sane than whatever the new trends are so it’s not bad but just not my thing).
Budgie isn’t a very big project so idk how consistent it is (it’s something I care about a lot). Though I think I never tried it myself.
But actually I don’t hate all of that projects. I just like GNOME and it works so so so well for me. My troll behavior towards other DEs is just a joke inspired by “Mii beta” YouTube channel. Btw KDE has performance, even though it’s more than feature-rich. That’s impressive.
oh okay ig its satire, ik mii beta bro shills GNOME lol.
Well not sure if I can call it satire because I think libadwaita is simply the best (and not MacOS stuff because it’s a bit bloated).
