If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose?
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Plasma's not that old, it just came out a few years ago...
2008?
wrote 11 days ago last edited byK so I just realized they didn't call it plasma until 2008, I first used KDE in 2005.
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I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it's Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)...etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.
Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the "Flagship Manjaro version". I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.
After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.
What about you guys?
wrote 11 days ago last edited byI'll stay on XFCE until I die ... or until my Hyprland config is finished. Whichever comes first.
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It’s wild to me how GNOME evokes such strong opinions in folks. It really is a love it or hate it kind of deal (I’m in the “love it” camp).
I wonder why that is. I like KDE ok, but it doesn’t elicit a strong emotion from me. KDE works fine, I just really like GNOME.
There must be something about GNOME in particular that some people love, and others hate.
wrote 11 days ago last edited byI was team Gnome before Gnome 3 came out. Nowadays I don't mind it for auxiliary computers that I don't interact with regularly. It has a huge community behind it and that is a quality in its own right. But since MATE never really managed to become a worthy successor to Gnome 2 I guess I'm team Plasma now. I got it "forced" on me by my beloved Steam Deck and I can definitely see why Valve went for it.
Currently I'm experimenting with Hyprland but that is definitely too early to call it my forever pick, so Plasma it is.
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Bro watches videos through ASCII conversion in the cli
wrote 11 days ago last edited byBad apple in text may be more impressive than it on the Nintendo.
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any computer I need to be stable enough for work/school: KDE
any computer whose primary purpose is for goofing off and gaming: LXQt (and I will spend the entire time configuring LXQt instead of gaming...)
wrote 11 days ago last edited byWhy not use steam or arch if it's just fucking around? Arch you can at least configure easily.
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Gnome but thats because im a big time laptop user. The way i use my laptops works really well on gnome. I hide the top bar, and have whatever im doing taking up the entire screen, and then just use gestures to navigate it. Side to side 3 finger swipe switches desktops, 3 finger swipe up takes you to task view, and with the small screen id hate to have some sort of taskbar.
If i was using a mouse i would probably want something more windows-esque in its design which i think KDE does better. So for a desktop id probably go with that.
wrote 11 days ago last edited byMy Spain just gave me an old netbook, you think I could use gnome effectively, or go for something lighter?
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I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it's Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)...etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.
Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the "Flagship Manjaro version". I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.
After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.
What about you guys?
wrote 11 days ago last edited bygnome head all the way!!!
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I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it's Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)...etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.
Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the "Flagship Manjaro version". I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.
After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.
What about you guys?
wrote 11 days ago last edited bytill
\sigh
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till
\sigh
wrote 11 days ago last edited byYou've obviously felt my pain. Maybe 6th install will take
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I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it's Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)...etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.
Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the "Flagship Manjaro version". I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.
After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.
What about you guys?
wrote 11 days ago last edited byLXQT or KDE
I just like the QT look and feel.GNOME is great in general but not for me, it is too much MacOS alike and too limited for my liking.
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I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it's Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)...etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.
Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the "Flagship Manjaro version". I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.
After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.
What about you guys?
wrote 11 days ago last edited byI'm in either terminal or browser most of the time, DE is not an issue for me... KDE has an easy battery life optimization feature for laptops, so I guess I'll go KDE
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I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it's Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)...etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.
Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the "Flagship Manjaro version". I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.
After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.
What about you guys?
wrote 11 days ago last edited byDefinitely Gnome here. Though I have a long list of notes, it mostly just works exactly like I expect with little friction or guessing. I donate $100/year to both Gnome and KDE since they are both good pieces of software, and I love that I get to chose mine. Further, I think KDE is the logical choice for something like the SteamDeck where it's going to have a lot of gamers that expect computers to work like Windows. (even if I don't like it, >_<)
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DK (similar to BSPWM or i3/sway). I have zero interest in "DE's" like KDE or Gnome, or anything heavily reliant on using a mouse.
wrote 11 days ago last edited byFinally a cultured person!
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I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it's Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)...etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.
Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the "Flagship Manjaro version". I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.
After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.
What about you guys?
wrote 11 days ago last edited byWell, for me it would be the setup i am now using since about 15 years:
WM: flwm
Filemanager: ROX-Filer
Background: feh... and a ton of tools i accumulated over the yesrs
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I've been using spectrwm for over a decade https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm and have no plans to change
wrote 11 days ago last edited byInteresting, do you know i3wm? If so, what is the advantage of spectrwm over it?
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DK (similar to BSPWM or i3/sway). I have zero interest in "DE's" like KDE or Gnome, or anything heavily reliant on using a mouse.
wrote 11 days ago last edited byWhy did you pick DK among the "same kind" ones? (like i3wm, which is what I currently use)
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Interesting, do you know i3wm? If so, what is the advantage of spectrwm over it?
wrote 11 days ago last edited byI've looked at i3wm, but I never used it, so I don't know. If I had to move to another wm, i3wm seems like the first one that I'd look at, since they seem so similar
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I've looked at i3wm, but I never used it, so I don't know. If I had to move to another wm, i3wm seems like the first one that I'd look at, since they seem so similar
wrote 11 days ago last edited byI have a whole system around it, different machines sharing their config files (over a git repo), so if I tweak one, the others catch-up.
Also, you can "build the config file" (I am cat-ing several dynamic blocks depending on the machine I am sitting on) and then init the DE.
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openSUSE Tumbleweed eliminates support for x11
Wait, what?
wrote 11 days ago last edited byWayland is now default, you have to add a few x11 packages to have an x11 login now. Also SE Linux Enforcing by default.
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I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it's Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)...etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.
Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the "Flagship Manjaro version". I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.
After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.
What about you guys?
wrote 11 days ago last edited byCinnamon. I've used so many distros and DEs I don't even know where to begin. Cinnamon got me hooked, and it's legitimately the most polished and "ready to run" DE I've ever used, yet still allowing for far more customization than Windows ever offered.