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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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I recently switched to hyprland, love it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I recently switched to hyprland, love it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I recently switched to hyprland, love it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I recently switched to hyprland, love it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I recently switched to hyprland, it's great! I used KDE before but wanted to touch base with a tiling wm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use Cinnamon which is quite a niche I think, but I really like the minimalistic design. My main requirement for a DE is for it to not get into my way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

XFCE on Arch...been using it for years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I enjoy gnome with the arcMenu extension https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3628/arcmenu/ I will include usually some other extensions, but arcMenu is what makes the experience a lot better than the stock one for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not an Arch user (I stayed in Fedora because convenience at the time), but I use Qtile these days. I have my own little scripts for making the colorscheme the same as the wal colorscheme.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use windowmaker and plasma. I also dabble in icewm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haven’t heard of windowmaker before

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am a die hard Cinnamon guy. I used to like MATE and then I played with Linux Mint for a short while and Cinnamon became my thing. Cinnamon works really well in Arch too. I just wish that its window manager, Muffin, would support Wayland. I really want to drop xorg like a bad habit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

XFCE with the WM replaced with Openbox. Ask me about my Openbox keyboard bindings for window moving and resizing :)

I kind of want to try KDE again, but I still feel it's too laggy, at least on my machine with intel graphics.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

KDE, for kwin's superior window management tools.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Kwin is pretty cool

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