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What's your favorite DE, and what does your workflow look like? (is.hardlywork.ing)

submitted 2 days ago by Dil@is.hardlywork.ing to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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After trying out Cosmic, Gnome,KDE Plasma, and Hyprland, I feel like plasma is the most usable for me coming from Windows. It solves the gripes I had about lack of customizability while still starting me off with a familiar homebar. I will be going back and forth with gnome for a while.

I really like gnome and the sliding desktops, and all the extensions seem to make it very customizable as well, but not directly like plasma, instead you mix and match (or make) extensions to get the look you want. (correct me if im wrong, I used it for a day)

Hyprland seems very nice for multitasking but the keyboard focus of the presets ive tried doesn't really appeal to me, I like being able to just use my mouse sometimes.

Cosmic, is definitely an alpha and im interested to see what it becomes, wont be using it now.

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[–] funkajunk@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I started using Windows as a young lad, but when I tried using Linux I easily transitioned to KDE. Then I tried Gnome and loved it, used it for a few years before moving over to Hyprland a couple of months ago and I can confidently say that I won't be going back.

EDIT:
Forgot to mention that the main reason I love Hyprland is because of the crazy level of customization. I use it primarily on my laptop and can navigate easily with keyboard shortcuts, clicking, and even trackpad gestures.

Don't let somebody else's idea of how to use a DE limit you, just configure whatever you want!

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Looks like we went the same way through the Linux world. Hyprland is both, it could be good looking like KDE and Gnome and it is keybind tiling like sway and i3.

I never realised before how much useless time we spend for mouse movings and clicks.

[–] Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I do like hyprland, I think itll take some time to get a config right but it feels fun to use and thats why I swapped to linux, windows felt boring with its ui and on top of that had constant random so it wasnt the good type of boring. Most shocking part has been having 100s of tabs open and swapping without issue, on windows it did not matter which browser I used my computer would tweak after 20 tabs

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

Wow trackpad gestures? I'm on gnome and their gestures are really good, if hyperland's is just as good I might try it out.