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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LXDE/LXQT because I grew up using potato computers and now I can’t stand it if my DE uses more than 2% of my hardware resources
though I am currently using KDE because for fuck knows what reason, Kubuntu is the only prepackaged Linux I’ve been able to get to boot on my weird Samsung laptop and I haven’t bothered to gut KDE and replace it with LXQT yet
XFCE, lightweight and has a terminal. 's all i need when i’m not trying out something like xmonad.
kde plasma, it’s fast, it’s pretty, it’s handy, it has all the keyboard shortcuts.
The only desktop that has a clipboard feature(superkey + v) I love, most of the desktop I see don’t have it and the clipboard show up as a system tray app.
You can get one in gnome too, via a plugin/extension (forgot the correctname for it)
I used Enlightment for the last few years, but switched this year to XFCE because i like the look more. I’m using old-as-fuck-hardware and both DEs work good on my machines.
I agree the enlightment ui is not good looking ngl it made me not use it.
Gaming PC: GNOME (it works fine and I don’t care about much else there)
Laptop: dwl (dwm for Wayland) and suckless tools. Ultra lightweight and comfy for browsing and watching videos. Usually at the same time.
suckless tools
Wow real pro spotted.
Depends on the computer I run. On fast computers (more than 5,000 passmark cpu points), i use gnome on whatever distro. On mid-speed computers (1000 to 5000 points), I use linux mint with cinnamon. On very old computers (400-1000), I use debian with XFce.
I actually found Cinnamon to be more resource intensive than Gnome on most computers.
Xfce… Because I donno, been using it for many years
Always ran xfce on my old used thinkpads!
I first used XFCE on my old 700mhz processor Thinkpad back in the day. Back then, Gnome and especially KDE were known to use excessive resources on low-end machines so XFCE was preferred.
However, I actually quite liked the DE so I just switched to it permanently, even on my more capable machines. I’ve been running XFCE for around 15 years 😆
Xfce is light and crisp! Looks great and works well with my myriad low-end computers 🐁
Ngl I like xfce because its Snappy, even on modern pcs.
I use Mate. When I first started using a Desktop in addition to terminals, it was with Redhat 6.1, Redhat came with Gnome-2, I got used to it. I didn’t like the changes made in Gnome-3, so I switched to Mate which retained, or at least had the option to be configured to look as I was used to it, save for more refined graphics. It also works well remotely so that’s another reason I use it as much of my work involves remote acess.
GNOME. Eagerly waiting for cosmic.
I already use the cosmic alpha and it works great. No crashes so far, the only thing that has happend twice in 2 Months of using it is the screen locker did not display after waking up from suspend which meant I needed to go to a VT and kill cosmic-session
I tried it and mostly love it. It’s not quite polished enough yet for me and I have two main complaints. First, half of my keyboard shortcuts don’t work anymore, and I wasn’t able to fix that last I tried. Second, it wouldn’t let me lock my computer or suspend. Had to shutdown everytime. Other than that and random librecalc crashes, I’m excited to see where it is in the coming months. Really rooting for the pop team
I think that’s what popos comes with, never looked into what the differences are between them or why one would want to switch
Using it on my latest install. Not bad. I mostly picked it for the visual aspects but I’m in the fence about it’s functionality. It feels like it takes more clicks than it should to open stuff.
Perhaps, but it’s also good to remember that it’s still in Alpha. That could still change. I feel like it would be hard to give a good review before it’s at least RC1
Same. Gnome currently but will certainly be trying Cosmic
I like gnome also. I’m going to try cosmic de but probably won’t use it full time.
I do use the PaperWM and dash to dock extensions, so it isn’t stock gnome. I normally don’t like extensions or addons but these are well done and it seems like they have staying power.
Sway. Very customiseable and extremely snappy
Same.
I dont do much customization, but the endevorOS community edition has decent defaults.
Just working cleanly with tiling feels so good. You dont have to use the mouse to move all the windows around. But if you hold the super key, you can just drag windows around to make a perfect layout. But often than not, i just want 2 windows side by side, with no wasted space. Done.
I used enlightenment for something like a decade. When Gnome hit the big time I used Gnome because it looked Nice and was very flexible. I went back to Mac and Windows Land for a bit, when I came back I went Gnome again. I just screw around for a day looking and picking plugins and fighting with it to get it exactly how I wanted it. After fighting with one of the older plugins that mustn’t doing what I wanted to do I saw somebody mentioned using KDE. I tried KDE and sure enough every single thing I was plugging the hell out of Gnome for was a default setting in KDE. I’m currently running Plasma. I must say that Cinnamon’s not bad either.
Oh yeah I was also running gnome with alot of plugins after a fedora update, boom tracker3 does not wanna work anymore, kde(fedora and cachyos) it’s in the desktop no relying on 3rd party plugins and cinnamon I can agree with you, I think of cinnamon gnome done right,with a windows 10 like ui.
Gnome on one machine, LXDE on another.
I use Gnome on my main laptop, a Thinkpad P50. I bought it with a dock thinking I’d use it at my desk and on the sofa but it’s a bit of a beast so that stays on my desk and I use an L440 with LXDE on the sofa. Considering trying LCARS on the sofa machine.
Hmm I have a question, why not lxqt its more actively maintained then lxde.
I used LXDE for a while on old crappy machines when I first started using Linux so just used to it I guess
XFCE as I like the look of the classic Windows layout. Might eventually try out KDE for Wayland support but there’s something about the simplicity of XFCE which I love.
Xfce is getting wayland support next update tho.
That’s good to know as I do love XFCE
Gnome. It just works out of the box and I can fly through it using the keyboard and touchpad without having to configure it first.
I’ve done the whole song and dance with tiling WMs, or going through all of KDE’s settings until it was perfect, but I just can’t be bothered anymore.Gnome because it is the default in my district, works right out of the box and I’m too old to fart around with customizing things anymore.
I just want to get to work.
You don’t have to configure KDE you know. You can just keep the defaults like you’re probably doing with GNOME.
I’m old, I come from old X11R4 time, motif, mwm, twm, fvwm, things from previous century. In modern Linux I used mostly gnome, and Cinnamon for a few years and tried to love it but cannot, I finally went back to Xfce because it works, it’s simple, neat, nice, I have no icon on my desktop, I have a kind of windows 3 setup: a startup menu (and some quick launches), the window bar, the notification area with time etc
I’m using MX Linux for maybe 8 years now with Xfce
Just installed that in a VM to play with! Any particular reason that became your daily driver?
I have tested multiple distro, in the beginning was mostly hack of multiple things and almost LFS, downloading floppies images from usenet… I then started to use Debian early 00, then used Ubuntu for years, but I don’t like snap/flatpak and lots of changes Ubuntu made so I switched to Mint Cinnamon, but hated it, often broken, glitches, etc, so I switched to MX because it is Debian based, always up to date (like latest FF and latest Xserver with last night CVE fix etc and always native .deb, no snap/flat). I also always loved minimal DE so Xfce is perfect and light. Also I mainly develop in Linux, no games.
Nice desktop, reminds me of cinnamon.
