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

[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.

[ph3ra@lemmy.ml]

I'd say Gnome, since I'm so used to it that I feel it doesn't get in the way of the things I'm doing.
Because that would be my aim: something that doesn't interfere with the work I am doing.

[acefuzzlord@lemm.ee]

Until my laptop dies or cannot support it, I'm sticking with KDE Plasma. Love how MX configured it (because I'm lazy) and absolutely will keep using it for as long as my laptop survived or can hold it.

Might try other ones in VMs (like ratpoison) in the future for other machines I might set up in the future, but for now KDE Plasma is my go-to that I'll probably be using for a long time.

[Guest]

SteamOS is the arch Linux off shoot they made specifically for the steam deck. It's great for integrated graphics gaming.

[thunderlegend@sh.itjust.works]

XFCE. It's lightweight, easy to tweak and looks great. I run it on my 6 y.o. potato laptop

[Guest]

I keep coming back to KDE time and time again. It's so easy to mess with, I can set it up exactly how I like it without much effort, and it always looks good because someone else did all the work making themes and widgets I use.

That said, I love XFCE, I'm just trash with CSS so it takes me forever to get it how I like, and on my Surface I can't get the scaling to work so everything is beyond tiny.

[augustwest@lemm.ee]

KDE. Been upgrading the same environment for 5 years just keeps getting better.

I started around maybe KDE 3?

[augustwest@lemm.ee]

The surprising thing is that KDE would run on there just fine too. If you don't add all the PIM stuff, it's almost a wash in memory usage and just as snappy.

[lengau@midwest.social]

Because distros have a sick sense of humour.

[lengau@midwest.social]

This isn't even hard. KDE without a second thought.

I regularly try other desktops, and I regularly come back to the only desktop with any sort of reasonable thought put into it.

[non_burglar@lemmy.world]

[jimmy90@lemmy.world]

And there was me thinking because it's really good?

[augustwest@lemm.ee]

Lol, yep. It's always funny to see xfce as being light weight.

Is this where I continue the meme and say I use arch by the way?

[lengau@midwest.social]

It's not though.

[invertedparallax@lemm.ee]

Was on KDE 2, KDE 3 was absolutely incredible, ran it on Mac when it was supported on xquartz.

4 was a mess, but got better, 5 & 6 are fine, but it's overall far better than any other DE, it's just so customizable, the only other thing that comes close is xmonad or something.

[xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml]

i have no idea not even sure what a netbook is