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What's your preferred DE? (lemdro.id)

submitted 1 year ago by governorkeagan@lemdro.id to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I’m currently testing Fedora KDE on a VM (windows host) before eventually switching over to Linux completely.

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[–] redd@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Thanks for all your discussions. All your experiences are very helpful for me. Now here is my top list and reasons:

Cinnamon (most familiar and very stable for me)
XFCE (I like the responseness and lightweightness)
MATE (stable and reliable)
KDE (I like the configurability, but unfortunately I experienced a lot of instabilities and accidents)
Gnome (I don't like the new UI concept. When I tried it, it was laggy and non-responsive)

Out of this list:

I3 (only head good things, but never tried it on my own installation)
Cosmic (first time I heard about today)
Budgie (first time I heard about today)

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gnome will be slow without acceleration. Were you running it in a vm?

[–] redd@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Tried it on VM and Backup Notebooks. Especially on old Notebooks its hardly usable.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

That is likely true although it may also have to do with a lack of ram and bad GPU support.

[–] inetknght@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Cinnamon is, straight up, the best. The only annoying part is that damn debugger thing that shows up that damn and useless LookingGlass thing which defaults to Super+L. Super+L definitely should be Lock Screen instead.