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What desktop enviroment do you use and why? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So a few months back I asked about you guys os in c/asklemmy, so this time I wanna ask about your desktops you use on this same account.
(I use kde but plan to move to cinnamon I find kde buggy and gnome tracker3 randomly broke for no reason + themeing so yh idk if these happened to anybody)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

GNOME. Eagerly waiting for cosmic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

I like gnome also. I'm going to try cosmic de but probably won't use it full time.

I do use the PaperWM and dash to dock extensions, so it isn't stock gnome. I normally don't like extensions or addons but these are well done and it seems like they have staying power.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

I think that's what popos comes with, never looked into what the differences are between them or why one would want to switch

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Same. Gnome currently but will certainly be trying Cosmic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I already use the cosmic alpha and it works great. No crashes so far, the only thing that has happend twice in 2 Months of using it is the screen locker did not display after waking up from suspend which meant I needed to go to a VT and kill cosmic-session

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I tried it and mostly love it. It's not quite polished enough yet for me and I have two main complaints. First, half of my keyboard shortcuts don't work anymore, and I wasn't able to fix that last I tried. Second, it wouldn't let me lock my computer or suspend. Had to shutdown everytime. Other than that and random librecalc crashes, I'm excited to see where it is in the coming months. Really rooting for the pop team

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Using it on my latest install. Not bad. I mostly picked it for the visual aspects but I'm in the fence about it's functionality. It feels like it takes more clicks than it should to open stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Perhaps, but it's also good to remember that it's still in Alpha. That could still change. I feel like it would be hard to give a good review before it's at least RC1