What's your favorite DE, and what does your workflow look like?
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I really like gnomes look with a few extensions tho, with plasma I feel the constant need to tinker just because I can and its two clicks away, with gnome I just use my computer and the extensions just work, not as much customization, even for placement, but definitely a lot more useful extensions that just work.
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I think if I reccomend linux kde to anyone new itll be gnome with a few extensions, since plasma is easy to break imo. A lot of default plasma configs are basically cleaner/customizable windows clones tho so it might be an easier transition, it immediatelt felt familiar when I was setting up cachyos.
Feed like gnome couldve scared me off, especially since I didnt know about the extensions and how easy it was to get proper menu. Once I had like 3 extensions, it felt good, was using the computer like normal and forgot I had swapped to gnome to temporarily test it. -
KDE Plasma and it's configured to have everything in the same places as Windows as much as possible. I have to use Windows for work and gaming and like it when I don't have to think much about which computer I'm using right now.
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Zorin is another distro that (very successfully imo) does a windows-style taskbar with GNOME and is parent friendly, though like I said before I think today I would go with something immutable for a non-techie because they're very hard to break.
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I love EOS. I have both sway and plasma installed. I prefer sway, but sometimes I get frustrated with troubleshooting and I can use plasma as a safety net. I’ve only had to do it once, but it’s nice knowing it’s there.
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I went cold turkey to gnome and I use KDE on my laptop. Both configured to use super + type in what I want to open. I quit windows since I got used to it and they stopped providing it. I like both but gnome is way more finished while kde feels a bit janky at times.
I don't know if it is distro specific but I am pretty upset fedora gnome does not have create new file under right click but you have to use terminal (goes completely against gnome philosophy) or to go edit hidden folders and use terminal to create a template (goes very against gnome philosophy). -
Universal BlueAurora KDE, or bluefin gnome are what id prob reccomend to any non gamers trying to use Linux after looking around, bazzite for gamers who dont want to tinker, cachyos for those who do. Seems like a straightforward way to get up and running, cachyos was hella easy to dualboot tho, universal blue doesnt seem to let me load a live os from my usb with a graphical installer, that was super helpful with cachy.
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Yeah I dont think hyprland will become a mainstay for me, but I will be copying that super plus shortcut way of working over to the other DEs, im just not productive 24/7 (nor do I want to be) so fully commiting to a tiling manager doesnt make sense
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I overcomplicated mine before going back to the simple look, even abusively adding stuff it feels less crowded than windows
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Lxqt, with pcmanfm's desktop ability turned off. I use the terminal for my file management anyway
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Id like to see what all the buzz about hyperland is one day. When it's not buggy and comes with a distro.
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XFCE and well, straightforward usage without endless tweaking and customization.
On the other side, I recently(~2 years:)) felt in love with tiling window manager BSPWM and keyboard-driven usage. -
CWM, calm window manager. It's based off Plan 9's Rio and made for OpenBSD, there is a Linux port. I also admit I use KDE sometimes.
