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

[404@lemmy.zip]

I'll stay on XFCE until I die ... or until my Hyprland config is finished. Whichever comes first.

[desentizised@lemm.ee]

I 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.

[Guest]

Bad apple in text may be more impressive than it on the Nintendo.

[Guest]

Why not use steam or arch if it's just fucking around? Arch you can at least configure easily.

[Guest]

My Spain just gave me an old netbook, you think I could use gnome effectively, or go for something lighter?

[Guest]

gnome head all the way!!!

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

till

\sigh

[Guest]

You've obviously felt my pain. Maybe 6th install will take

[Guest]

LXQT 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.

[Guest]

I'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

[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.