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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] 1 points 5 hours ago

I use DWM in place of a window manager because I love the lightweight, minimalist base, and i like to customise my setup very finely. (I use Arch btw)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Kde because i want customization and standard is also ok. I tried gnome but did not like that extensions were required for tray icons etc. Gnome is otherwise good.

I3 and hyperland i dont get. Some windows should not be very large no matter how much free screen space you have. Example is calculator or old school chat applications like pidgin. No native standard set of applications. Everything must manually be added and custom, like everything in kde settings(sound output, network settings, screen size etc). Waiting for when applications can recommend its screen size to the window manager.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

You can use i3 with xfce to have a menu and an icon bar if you want one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

You can set specific applications as floating windows in i3 so that they take their original size

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

KDE all the way, it's incredible especially since 6

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

GNOME, because I started with Red Hat 6 and I'm used to it, on Fedora Silverblue, because I have a long history of fucking up my PC and that makes it harder. For remote machines XFCE because the mouse is cute.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Typically I don’t use a DE. I’ll go for dmenu + dwm usually if I only want a WM. I find the default bindings and behaviour for the tiling is the most ergonomic when comparing it to other WMs like i3.

When I do have to get a DE setup then I’ll use XFCE because I like how it stays out of the way and I find it easy to customise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I also user dwm and I can't recommend it highly enough.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

I love KDE. It's got easy to use power user features and is very robust.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

KDE Plasma. It came on my steam deck which was my first intro to it, it blew me away and installed it on my laptop and finally ditched Windows shortly after. Works great for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

KDE at home "gaming" desktop, but would love to move away from it, for various bugs and non-working configurations. At work and home laptop I am using WMs, riverwm / i3.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Same, I wanna move to another desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Currently I use gnome cosmic because of PopOS, integration and stuff. When I get around using Arch I'm certainly gonna get myself Plasma, because it's pretty af

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

i3. Superb for keyboard-driven environment. Ultra fast, so responsive and configurable. The best.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

trinity because it's lighter than almost everything else while having more features than almost everything else

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Last update 27th Oct 2024? Trinity is still kicking around? I have so many questions...

Will there be Wayland support?

What is the purpose of it?

Does it even use later versions of Qt?

How lightweight is it (how much RAM and CPU does it use on a cold boot?)?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I love gnome and use that for everything except gaming. If I want to game I use KDE

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I've been using gnome for gaming, whats wrong with that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

If I had to guess, probably variable refresh rate

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Gnome and Cosmic. Gnome 'cause of simplicity and Cosmic because of Rust.

!I am a Rust programmer and I love this language!<

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

I found some negative press about cosmic which can be valid or not.
https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-on-cosmic

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

XFCE. I also like tiling WMs, but I often have to share computers and they are too unintuitive for the rest of the family.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

You can use i3 inside xfce. I think (not sure) you can do this on a per user basis.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (10 children)

Windows 10

Because I am soft and weak from getting smashed every day at my 3 part time jobs and I just want to drink and play video games at the end of the day, not learn a new OS.

I promise to try Linux Mint when windows 10 is no longer supported.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I'd suggest switching to open source apps or apps that work on Linux, maybe check up on the compatibility of games you play over at ProtonDB.

That will make your transition smoother.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago
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[–] icogniito 8 points 18 hours ago

I dont use a DE, I use a WM.

Semantics aside I’m on Hyprland, been using it for 6 months now and absolutely love it

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