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For me its KDE.

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[–] slowneedler@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I've used gnome for years, about a month ago I decided to give KDE a try on my old spare laptop. Two days later it was on my desktop and work laptop. I am loving KDE.

[–] Spider89@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[–] rubin@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Cinnamon is the best

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

TDE (for those who haven't encountered it before, the Trinity Desktop Environment forked from KDE3 more than a decade ago). It might not be the flashiest or the newest, but it has a decent selection of features and applications, and presents a traditional desktop environment whose interface doesn't get changed for the sake of change. In other words, it stays out of the way and lets me get things done.

(If I'd liked Gnome 2 better than KDE 3 rather than vice-versa, I probably would have gone for MATE instead.)

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Hyprland + bemenu. Minimalistic, very little overhead, but still a pretty boi.

[–] ProfessorYakkington@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I am on pop is for my home desktop. I like the built in tiling manager. Ubuntu for work. Might give nix or kde a go next.

[–] someacnt@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

I cannot but mention xmonad wm with my own configurations

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I really like KDE, but I’ve been daily driving Gnome since version 40. Insanely polished and I really like the workflow of everything. I do wish they were faster in implementing stuff like VRR though.

[–] Furycd001@fosstodon.org 1 points 2 years ago

@fugepe XFCE is the best in my opinion. It's lightweight, full customizable & easy to set up....

[–] ScotinDub@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Xfce on work desktop, gnome works well with gestures at home on my laptop. Will be changing to kde when I get a new machine at work!

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

I've been using QTile for probably a year now. It's not perfect, but I like the tiled windowing and I know python.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

KDE if I have performance to spare. XFCE if I am running this in a container on my phone.

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Um....none.

[–] capimcanela@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

barless dwl, love the simplicity

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Hyprland + bemenu. Minimalistic, very little overhead, but still a pretty boi.

[–] Tsuki@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Mine is a combination of Sway + i3bar. Stick with it since I downlosded Pop!_OS

[–] xohshoo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

EXWM (Emacs X windows manager)

all it lacks is a good editor

(j/k, I've settled on Cosmic on Pop for the last few years, and now I'm so lazy, I barely update it)

[–] DeadGemini@waveform.social 1 points 2 years ago

i3 on my laptop, gnome on my gaming rig (cuz wayland)

[–] gkpy@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

sway + bemenu for building my own utilities

btw what distro are my fellow sway users on? i'm loving the control i get over what i install with gentoo

how is everyone interacting with audio, networking, bluetooth?

[–] NotGabe@mastodon.social 1 points 2 years ago

@fugepe I use a mostly vanilla Gnome, with the exception of the Blur My Shell and Vitals extensions

[–] kanzalibrary@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

is anyone used herbsluftwm for low powered CPU here?

[–] maengooen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

i3 counts, right? I have always been a keyboard oriented user and a big part of what drove me from Windows is them breaking or changing the hotkeys I used regularly. To me it is the perfect "you have control, this is your device, it works and looks how you want." wm

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Vanilla Gnome Shell. I know it's heresy, but I've been using it since beta and I actually enjoy the work flow.

[–] vacuumflower@vlemmy.net 1 points 2 years ago
[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

bspwm + sxhkd, for years. Based on the Manjaro config at first, today it's my own setup. Even convinced may family. The best!

[–] bnuser1@mastodon.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@fugepe I use Ubuntu but, is KDE easy to pick up? Just getting into Linux my self.

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[–] WheelcharArtist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[–] NotGabe@mastodon.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@fugepe Wow, not a lot of replies are saying Gnome, but there's a lot more XFCE than I thought I'd see

[–] Octorine@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

It may be a sort of shy Tory effect. People don't volunteer that they run Gnome because it's seen as the default mainstream option, but if someone uses xmonad, they're going to tell you about it.

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