If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose?

[Guest]

Definitely 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, >_<)

[double_quack@lemm.ee]

Finally a cultured person!

[the_wiz@feddit.org]

Well, 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

[double_quack@lemm.ee]

Interesting, do you know i3wm? If so, what is the advantage of spectrwm over it?

[double_quack@lemm.ee]

Why did you pick DK among the "same kind" ones? (like i3wm, which is what I currently use)

[Guest]

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

[double_quack@lemm.ee]

I 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.

[bcsven@lemmy.ca]

Wayland is now default, you have to add a few x11 packages to have an x11 login now. Also SE Linux Enforcing by default.

[lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Cinnamon. 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.

[rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Xfce, ol' reliable.

[Guest]

Ah, nice. I have a similar setup, I have a repo, and for each rc-file, I do:
cat ${general_config} ${machine_specific_config} > ${rc_file_name}

[semperverus@lemmy.world]

I miss old Gnome. I wish they'd stuck with the old Gnome 2 design philosophy but breathed new modern design principals into it, instead of trying to go the Ubuntu Unity route.

[daggermoon@lemmy.world]

KDE Plasma, I can't go back to SDR

[double_quack@lemm.ee]

Hahahah, same! I use a folder with the hostname to build the config on the fly. And all my config files are in one repo that then I stow

[Guest]

Ran KDE then Gnome a long time ago.
Now it's openbox wm.

[jimmy90@lemmy.world]

why do you think gnome is the default on everything?

[janus2@lemmy.zip]

tbh hadn't heard of steam and always assumed arch was difficult to learn. but i had been considering trying arch just to see what the hype was about

[baconisaveg@lemmy.ml]

DK is really small, and doesn't try to do anything other than manage windows, and has a very simple shell script for configuration. I use sxhkd, polybar, and bemenu (with a frequency script) for everything else that I need.

I ran sway for a few months but it was missing one crucial ability that I've grown used to, which is to rotate the windows through the stack.

[fatur0000new@lemmy.ml]

Xfce, and Cinnamon. You can't force me to choose just one.

[Guest]

Not a DE, but I've been using sway for around 5 years now, and I have no intention of moving away from it unless something really bad happens. I love using it, and it's been behaving perfectly all tgis time.