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    Which DE/WM do you prefer? (lemmy.world)
    submitted 7 months ago by Waffelson@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] logi@lemmy.world 68 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Is gnome claiming to be older than kde? 'cause it isn't. Gnome was started because decades ago, the license for the qt library used by kde wasn't quite open enough.

    [–] tunawasherepoo@iusearchlinux.fyi 65 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    i interpreted it as the user's first DE was gnome :)

    [–] logi@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

    Yeah, that would work.

    [–] rollingflower@lemmy.kde.social 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    CDE (common desktop environment) was proprietary afaik. Crazy times

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    [–] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 49 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Let the chant begin

    KDE! KDE! KDE! Death to foot fetish Death to mice Death to everybody who dont rice

    KDE! KDE! KDE!

    [–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 12 points 7 months ago

    Upvoted for the limerick.

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    [–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 7 months ago

    KDE Plasma. It works for me, and it has enough features so that I can adapt it to my workflow as my workflow changes.

    [–] backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Hyprland

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    [–] themarty27@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Cinnamon

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    [–] Mango@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    As a partaker of anime I know that being older isn't usually an advantage.

    Also KDE wins. Fight me.

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    [–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    i3, not for any smart reason, just bc it was the first tiling wm that i used, and i dont have a reason to switch

    [–] drbluefall@toast.ooo 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    And for the Waylanders like me, we have sway.

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    [–] nfsu2@feddit.cl 18 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    After Plasma 6 released I prefer KDE over Gnome every day, I found that Plasma 5 was too messy, inconsistent and unintuitive even if Gnome was lacking in functionality. Even then I decided to move to i3 "just because" and now I'm transitioning to Sway. So far I think Sway is my favorite.

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    [–] dukatos@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago

    KDE was first.

    [–] rizoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Gnome. I'm a Mac refugee from a decade ago. I've been using gnome with dash2dock and dash2panel together to make a sudo Mac os.

    [–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Do you mean pseudo?

    [–] rizoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Lol yeah I'm dumb and tired

    [–] bort@sopuli.xyz 9 points 7 months ago

    "sudo MacOS" sounds like a legit way to describe "gnome+ubuntu"

    [–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 7 months ago

    FVWM.

    I feel like the "desktop environment" is a Faustian bargain. You get a plateload of software that looks consistent, but none of it is best of breed.

    I can recall being a bit wowed by the original KDE 1.0 betas on my old 486, when Konqueror was the file manager as much as the browser, but in the end it felt like thry were trying to recreate the experience you got wth the pack-in software of Windows 95.

    And **** GNOME for really pushing the client-side decorations model. I configured my window manager to put the title bar and close button where I want it, thank you.

    [–] starman@programming.dev 11 points 7 months ago

    Hyprland for now, but I'll probably switch to COSMIC, once it's available on NixOS

    [–] cookie_sabotage@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    sway is the way.

    [–] sntx@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

    This is the Sway

    [–] endhits@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

    KDE. I don't have to change anything (other than taskbars on all monitors rather than just the main one) for an experience I like. Everything just works. Wayland support is best in class.

    I don't like gnome's workflow and it takes COSMIC level customization for me to like it. And technical issues are common for me. Namely windows constantly spawning off screen and delayed reactions.

    XFCE's default layout is absolutely horrible and there's no Wayland support. Mint XFCE's implementation is good though.

    Cinnamon, in my experience, is buggy and has similar technical problems to gnome.

    I've used i3wm and it's okay, but I would never use it on my main desktop. Takes a certain kind of workflow.

    I've messed with AwesomeWM and can say it's very ok.

    LXDE/LXQT are obsolete. Not old school, obsolete. And in the case of QT, there's absolutely no reason to use it when XFCE has the same ram usage anyway.

    --

    I haven't used any other desktops other than these.

    [–] 5PACEBAR@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

    I ended a 30-years Windows streak BECAUSE of KDE Plasma 6 (among other reasons)

    [–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 7 months ago

    MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,

    (mint cinnamon)

    [–] bentusi@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    i3wm + xde.

    [–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I'm using herbstluftwm and am happiest with it, but spent years on i3, almost a year in bspwm, and a hot minute on sway. All after years of mostly KDE, some Gnome, and a few years (concurrently w/ Linux) on Macs from work.

    Any tiling WM over any DE. I'd go back to i3 before choosing either Gnome or KDE. The one exception would be a fully feature-complete NeXTSTEP clone. I'd switch to that in a heartbeat. Not OpenSTEP, not Windowmaker; NS was beautiful, functional, fully integrated in all aspects - like MacOS, but without the dumbed-down idiocracy.

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    [–] s3rvant@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago

    I've ran GNOME for years until this month. Something randomly broke and then on fresh install the dark theme wasn't working correctly. Switched to KDE and everything looks and works perfectly. Think I'll hang out here for the foreseeable future.

    [–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 9 points 7 months ago

    Used i3 and then sway almost a decade. When Plasma 6 arrived, I just wanted to try it out and it just kind of stuck to me. Lovely desktop.

    [–] ManniSturgis@lemmy.zip 8 points 7 months ago

    Wrong. I don't like themes. I turn on dark mode, move the default panel up top and setup papirus icons and breeze white cursor theme. This is about as basic as it gets.

    [–] bort@sopuli.xyz 7 points 7 months ago

    KDE on steamdeck, because it came preinstalled

    Gnome on work-pc, because it came preinstalled

    also gnome on notebook, because the multi-workspace thing works very nice OOTB in gnome

    [–] neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    DE: XFCE

    WM (Edit: compositor, you know what I mean): Hyprland, Wayfire (close second)

    I really like how stable and polished XFCE feels, but I've got into tilling/dynamic window managers over the past few years so I just use Hyprland now. It's not as stable and whenever there's a bad commit and I can't be bothered looking into it I just use Wayfire and praise the spinning cylinder and rotating windows for a few weeks.

    [–] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    xfce with i3

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    [–] gianni@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

    GNOME for sure

    [–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

    For out of the box looks, personally like KDE more than any of the others I've seen.

    [–] Altomes@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Gnome with a few extensions just feels very natural for me, but I've also just been using gnome for a long time

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    [–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    preparing to make the jump to linux soon. Here for recommendations. I haven't been happy with windows since XP.

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    [–] morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Both ☝🏻

    [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    There's three in that picture. XFCE is the one in back.

    [–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    some people get easily distracted by a nice pair of big DEs

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    [–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    That's their logo!? I've used XFCE for years and never knew...

    [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

    Thats some major street cred for XFCE:

    XFCE - we're so minimalist you don't even know we had a logo.

    In fairness, I only recognized it because xubuntu (XFCE based Ubuntu) uses the mouse themed logo.

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    [–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

    Gnome for me. I used to love kde and still do but fedora made me love gnome

    [–] sag@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

    XFCE

    [–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago

    Generally depends on the device. Overall, KDE for desktops, Gnome for laptops. Xfce on older devices.

    [–] AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    MATE, any day.

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    [–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    none/none

    [–] ralakus@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

    Found the TempleOS user

    [–] Blinchik@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

    Xfce just works, but I wanna switch back to kde someday

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