What's your favorite DE, and what does your workflow look like?
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Krunner on Meta
And a lot of alt + tabThat's pretty much it
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I tried working with tiling and while it felt kinda cool, in the end it didn't solve any problem I have. At most I'm working in 2 different windows 99% of the time and I have a second monitor for that. So it's not that hiding windows is a use case, it's that tiling them isn't one.
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Debian and xfce, generally. I'm happy to wait for features when they arrive, and xfce works fine.
However, Debian with gnome on my surface pro 6. Xorg just doesn't handle rotation and touchscreen things very well.
On the other hand, several apps still behave very poorly under Wayland, so it's a bit of a catch 22 at the moment.
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Sway right now, setup was super straightforward. I just wish it had some dynamic tiling functionality. Plus I really like the suckless mentality of starting with basic functionality and patching in features as needed.
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Same. Check out breadonpenguins on the yew tube, some real cool tweaks on their GitHub. their vids inspired me to use dwm.
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Love breadonpenguins, she def inspired me too, I’m talking about DWL tho, like the Wayland fork of DWM. I had some issues w the dependencies they had listed.
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Bluefin and GNOME.
I do want to use KDE plasma but everytime I use KDE my ADHD starts kicking in and I make the most cursed UI ever then my notification panel stops working
All I to is use Firefox and at night use krita
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I still do not understand Wayland. It’s an alternative to X?
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I really like the gnome workflow plus a couple of extensions. Notably I ran across a tiling extension called “grid” that scratched my tiling window needs on my desktop, and gnome is amazing on my laptop trackpad. I zing through desktops quick! Anything it can’t do out of the box, you can find an extension for.
I like the feel of something different than windows.
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For the touchpad? I basically use my laptop like a desktop with a mouse, pluggedin to power. (it was more for easy transportation from college to back home, didn't have a desktop and gaming laptops get insane deals if you keep track, got mine $2,000 off at like $1100 and it was the best all amd alienware config at the time (still handles everything), just preemptively explaining because im used to redditors giving me shit for using a laptop as a desktop)
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Hyprland is kinda cool since you can still have windows over windows if you need/want it, I was worried since the width can be off and its easy to just open a window and scale iy manually to see text properly, it doesnt solve any problem I have tho, just forces me to use the keyboard more than I want to.
I definitely want to spend a sunday just customizing and tinkering with it tho, sounds fun.Rnow plasma works super well for me, love that you can right click windows and have them always stay on top or always be below, useful when using the transparent terminal. Hyprland has a top popdown terminal (at least the config I used) which is kinda sick, but not really necessary lol.
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Xfce for speed, consistency, and reliability. For most of my workflow I began avoiding configuring a DE as much as possible by relying on AutoKey, and simple terminal commands, because I can import those to fresh installs way easier.
I moved away from Plasma due to too many small yet annoying bugs.
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Lol dw, you won't get shot here for using your hardware how you intend to use it... Why would anyone get mad about that??
Well if you don't use your trackpad then obviously Gnome gestures won't be a big point for you. I never really used to either back when I used tiling Window managers, I solely relied on a purely keyboard driven workflow, until I got a new job and they use MacBook Pros as our work laptops, there I got super into the trackpad gestures. For example, three finger swipe left or right to change workspace, three finger swipe up for an application/workspace overview.
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It's to be the replacement for Xorg/X11.
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I started out on Cinnamon (via Mint). Although I have used Ubuntu many moons ago but despised Gnome and never touched it since. After Mint In went to Arch where I DE hopped for many years.
I tried XFCE (didn't like the visual inconsistences); Openbox - liked and loved for quite a while as a minimalist setup;
Mate - too old looking so didn't last;
Deepin - lasted a very long time because I loved it so much but eventually stopped because they changed the design too much to be link Windows;
Budgie which lasted a little while and was the next closest to what Deep in provided. Was too immature at the time to be enjoyed long term;
Pantheon - I still love Pantheon. It's consistent, polished and cohesive. To me a perfect blend of nice looking, minimal and functional. Stopped using because I got tired of having to fix it on Arch;
Finally KDE. It's what I've been using for several years now because it just works, it looks nice, it's very customisable (I can make my desktop look similar to Pantheon), I like the integration and ecosystem of apps, it has great support and devs that listen.... I'm yet to have a DE tempt me away from it. Not even Cosmic lol. -
I like Cinnamon, stacked on the right (vertical bar) with the third party cinnamenu start menu. Simple, and it works.
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I love the customisability of KDE
I read this often but found KDE so difficult to customise. XFCE or Cinnamon is what I'd consider extremely customisable, KDE doesn't even consistently listen to what theme colour I set
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Cinnamon is a long time favorite of mine; it has a certain practical mindedness that I like. Gnome irritates the absolute shit out of me and Cinnamon inherits just a little too much from Gnome. I'm using KDE on my main computer at the moment, which I still think is my second choice. Doesn't really help that my move to KDE also came with a move to Wayland, which killed a few tools I still miss.
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Cinnamon. I feel like it's a nice middle ground between the minimalism of Gnome and the maximalism of KDE Plasma
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I am not using DE i am using hyprland
With arch Linux btw
