I wanted to get a feel for everyone’s thoughts on desktop environments (or window managers if you don’t use a DE). I’m new to Lemmy, so apologies if this is too low-effort a post.
Personally I’m running KDE on my main computer, but I have an Arch virtual machine I use for more experimentation. That VM has seen KDE, i3, and will probably see hyprland at some point soon
I use GNOME.
Great wallpaper. This is the original artist: https://www.deviantart.com/arsenixc
Yes! There are several variations of it and I use dwall to change them according to daytime.
I enjoy having dynamic wallpapers from this package.
I use a window manager, Openbox. It’s great once you have your personal config file and shortcuts! Also, I can’t be sure but I think @mutoroglin@feddit.nl recently switched to Hyperland lol
Lol read this comment first then understood the last sentence after a short stroll. Take my up vote!
Hah! Lemmy.world issues maybe?
I’m surprised you mentioning that after I only sent that twenty times :-D
I’m using xfce. It’s on endeavros as I like to belong to the arch crowd without working with the lengthly set up from scratch.
I prefer xfce as anything of note is accessible with a few minor exceptions due to endeavros security concerns such as Bluetooth which requires a quick systemctl command.
I started off with it after discovering ubuntu and trying the xfce version. I liked it and went through a few distros including crunchbang with openbox but ultimately xfce is a very straightforward experience for me and fairly customisable. The only drawback is it doesn’t look like some of the awesome screenshots I’ve seen of i3 or other tiling managers but as a teacher I don’t do development or have that much knowledge to tinker so xfce is my go-to.
XFCE is also very light on resources and it looks better than LXDE so I always install XFCE on old laptops.
Kde, let me change everything every time I get bored instead of switching to a whole different WM.
Valid!
I just jumped up on the Hyprland band wagon (4 weeks ago). Very pleased with it so far!
I have Plasma installed on my Arch based installation, but I hardly use it since I also have i3 installed which I adore.
My i3 setup looks very similar to my Plasma setup, I prefer window managers because they are more productive to use.
i3 with dmenu and polybar. Such a great and efficient setup for school and work, love it.
That’s the setup I tried to get used to. I miiight still have it, although it was on my testing VM so I think I have reinstalled since then
I just use GNOME with a few extensions. Works fairly well for me.
long time i3 user, now switched to sway
I’ve seen people mention Sway every once in a while. What’s the benefit over i3 if you don’t mind me asking?
it comes down to wayland, i3 only supports Xorg, sway only supports wayland.
as far as features goes sway was built to be pretty much a drop in replacement for i3 with a few improvements.
Wayland
Gnome. It just seems simple, elegant and smooth. It does what I need from a DE (not that much, I do a lot in terminal and Emacs). It has good keybindings out of the box and good virtual desktop mechanisms. It was also the first DE with good Wayland support. At first I was unsure if I liked Gnome’s concept and restrictions, but I’ve grown to like it fast.
Xfce on Manjaro VM. Love it.
I recently switched to hyprland, love it!
qtile and picom. It took some getting used to but I never want to leave the luxury of dynamic tiling.
For years I was using KDE, but since 2-3 years I’m now using Cinnamon: it’s fast, it’s uncluttered, it gets the job done. I like it 😊
Totally valid! I use KDE because I like eye candy. I also like the ability to have a menu bar like macOS does.
Is Cinnamon in the repos? I’ve used Cinnamon when I played around with Linux Mint. It’s pretty fast, no real complaints with it. Customization can be difficult ime, which is part of the reason I went with KDE. Themes and whatnot are so easy to find because of the downloader built in
Yes it’s in Extra so it can be installed quite easily: Arch Cinnamon
Themes can be installed from within it’s Settings Menu, so I can’t complain there 😊
I have tried tiling WM’s but they are not for me. KDE Plasma offers the right balance of customisability, look consistency and features to always come back on top again. It’s been my go-to desktop environment since KDE3.
