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    Bottom left is Awesome WM. Ask me anything or tell us your picks!

    (and feel free to tear me apart on my picks)

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    [–] BladeFederation@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

    Favorite: KDE. The GOAT babyyy

    Least Favorite: Deepin, due to the privacy concerns

    First DE: XFCE

    Honorable Mention: Cosmic. It is sexy with decent balance of customization & strong unified vision. It is early on though so not quite ready for prime time. Some bugs, and resource consumption could be better.

    Current DE: KDE

    Potential Future DE: Might see what thr fuss is about with WMs like Niri. It seems more complicated to set up than it needs to be, but I like the tiling and use of desktops sort of like GNOME but better.

    Longest used DE: KDE

    Current distro: Fedora KDE

    [–] Mistiygirl@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

    Gotta say, I don't really think there's any big issues with Cosmic anymore. They are updating very very quickly, and at this point is consumes less resources than XFCE....

    It also has a native tiling mode xD

    [–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

    What’s your beef with Gnome?

    [–] Mistiygirl@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    idk.. it just feels very locked down, and honestly every time i've tried it, there's been some issue with it. I feel like it's not customizable enough for me, and also the themeing is inconsistent.

    [–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 26 minutes ago

    That’s honestly exactly how I would describe KDE, but to each their own!

    [–] inari@piefed.zip 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    Maybe OP likes a more Windows-like UI

    [–] Mistiygirl@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

    That's not really my issue. I actually prefer MacOS like-interfaces, although in the grand scheme of things I don't actually care. I mostly just want to be able to choose what I want though.

    [–] moonlight@fedia.io 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

    Favorite DE: Niri First DE used: XFCE DE you want to use in the future: Niri Honorable Mention: Hyprland least favorite: Anything non tiling, or maybe Hyprland due to a lot of minor annoyances Current DE: Niri longest used DE: i3 Current Distro: NixOS and Arch

    You should try Niri!

    [–] Mistiygirl@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

    I've considered it, but i'm not sure if I like the scrolling tiling yet..

    [–] roflo1@feddit.nl 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

    Tell me you use Arch (btw) without telling me you use Arch, btw.

    [–] Mistiygirl@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

    well, I thought it was important since usually people using Cosmic are on Pop!_OS

    [–] hyphen0175@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    What’s that at the top left? I can’t find a window manager named Cosmic anywhere. I’m addicted to hopping window managers, I’m curious what that one is like especially if it is tiling.

    [–] Mistiygirl@lemmy.zip 20 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

    It's a desktop environment, originally from Pop!_OS. It's very new, and sometimes still slightly buggy but I really like it.

    It's a hybrid tiling or floating wm. The tiling mode is really good though!

    [–] EtherTide@aussie.zone 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

    What's the DE you want to use in the future? I'm not great with logos. Thanks 😊

    [–] dlsloop@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

    I'd really like to learn Python so I can customize qtile

    [–] WorkingPie@feddit.online 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

    Both my favorite, longest used and current DE would be MATE. Currently using it on desktop with Debian and a laptop running Fedora. Super customizable and very speedy. Beyond that I really enjoy Gnome but haven't used it in a bit.

    [–] db2@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago
    [–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 7 hours ago

    i3wm still works ... I might eventually switch to sway.