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)

  • Matúš Maštena@lemmy.ml
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    Gnome and Cosmic. Gnome 'cause of simplicity and Cosmic because of Rust.

    !I am a Rust programmer and I love this language!<

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    Gnome. I actually started with KDE. It’s a good DE, but it’s got so many options that I had choice fatigue. I constantly tweaked my taskbar instead of focusing on what I wanted to do. And it was easy to get it to a “looks broken” state

    When I tried Gnome, I fell in love with it. I love the unique workflow, lack of distractions, the modern adwaita design, etc. Everything felt so polished

    That being said, I don’t like how Gnome devs seemingly can’t agree on anything with other desktop environments. And I don’t like how they refuse to support server-side window decorations. Like, I agree with them that CSD are better than SSD, but it would be reasonable to support SSD for toolkits that haven’t/don’t want to implement CSD themselves, right?

    I’m excited for Cosmic. It looks like it combines the best of Gnome and KDE, and the devs don’t have the “my way or the highway” mindset

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      I don’t like how Gnome devs seemingly can’t agree on anything with other desktop environments

      Yeah, especially how they dont include minimize and maximize window buttons by default, that’s incomprehensible LOL

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        I’m not a Gnome user but I stopped minimizing my windows years ago. Don’t need that if you (a) don’t have icons on your desktop and (b) move your windows over to another workspace when stuff gets crowded.

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    My desktop environment of choice would be XFCE. It’s simply easy to configure while not giving me choice fatigue like KDE does. Also I don’t like Qt for some reason.

    GNOME is great but I find their extensions to be super clunky sometimes. Some of them even break in between updates. The main selling point of gnome (for me) is the minimal look and feel, extensions kind of ruin that a little bit.

    Don’t get me wrong plasma and Gnome are wonderful DEs but XFCE provides a simple and balanced desktop IMO. The only thing that’s missing is full Wayland support.

    P.S : Anyways most of the time I would be running a window manager instead of a DE, my current favourite Wayland window-manager is Labwc because it gives me openbox vibes.

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    Kde because i want customization and standard is also ok. I tried gnome but did not like that extensions were required for tray icons etc. Gnome is otherwise good.

    I3 and hyperland i dont get. Some windows should not be very large no matter how much free screen space you have. Example is calculator or old school chat applications like pidgin. No native standard set of applications. Everything must manually be added and custom, like everything in kde settings(sound output, network settings, screen size etc). Waiting for when applications can recommend its screen size to the window manager.

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    KDE at home “gaming” desktop, but would love to move away from it, for various bugs and non-working configurations. At work and home laptop I am using WMs, riverwm / i3.

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    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.

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    GNOME, because I started with Red Hat 6 and I’m used to it, on Fedora Silverblue, because I have a long history of fucking up my PC and that makes it harder. For remote machines XFCE because the mouse is cute.

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    Currently I use gnome cosmic because of PopOS, integration and stuff. When I get around using Arch I’m certainly gonna get myself Plasma, because it’s pretty af

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    KDE all the way, it’s incredible especially since 6

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      It’s been great almost since I started using it.

      I started using it exactly when 4.0 came out, because that’s when I started using Linux and I thought learning 3 didn’t make sense. But 4 only got stable around 4.4 I think. The problem was that 4.0 wasn’t intended to be for end users yet, but distributions didn’t realize that and packaged it right away.

      KDE didn’t repeat that mistake. 5.0 was almost completely smooth sailing (some applications took a long time to port and looked ugly, that’s it), and 6.0 was completely seamless.

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    I love KDE. It’s got easy to use power user features and is very robust.

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    KDE Plasma. It came on my steam deck which was my first intro to it, it blew me away and installed it on my laptop and finally ditched Windows shortly after. Works great for me.

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    trinity because it’s lighter than almost everything else while having more features than almost everything else

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      Last update 27th Oct 2024? Trinity is still kicking around? I have so many questions…

      Will there be Wayland support?

      What is the purpose of it?

      Does it even use later versions of Qt?

      How lightweight is it (how much RAM and CPU does it use on a cold boot?)?

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    XFCE. I also like tiling WMs, but I often have to share computers and they are too unintuitive for the rest of the family.

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      You can use i3 inside xfce. I think (not sure) you can do this on a per user basis.