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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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[–] Nimrod@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sway is it. I tried originally building it all up from scratch. It was fun, and taught me how all the pieces fit together, but now I just grab the EOS community dotfiles and make a few minor tweaks.

For me, it’s not a “workflow” that is sped up, it really just helps me remember where stuff “belongs”. Workspace 1 always has my Spotify, audio mixer, and discord/signal. Workspace 5 is gaming, etc.

Resizing and swapping window locations around is so simple with just super+mouse click/drag.

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I should take another crack at sway. I didn't know about EOS. I started with nwg-shell.

[–] Nimrod@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

I love EOS. I have both sway and plasma installed. I prefer sway, but sometimes I get frustrated with troubleshooting and I can use plasma as a safety net. I’ve only had to do it once, but it’s nice knowing it’s there.

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The EOS files look a great place to start.

Do you default your apps to start on a particular workspace?

[–] Nimrod@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I tried to do that when I started, but now it’s just habit. Super+Shift+# does most of the work.

My only complaint with the EOS configuration is the lack of Bluetooth on the bar. And the sound/screen brightness buttons don’t give any visual/audio feedback. I have some notifications imbedded, but they look and feel kinda janky compared to how nice and clean they are in Plasma.

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I added bluetooth in mine, it'll show me whats connected on hover and just launch the gnome app for bluetooth if I click it, super lazy implementation. I don't need brightness controls so never looked at them.

EOS seems to use mako for notifications? I have never tried it.

I use swaync, which once themed and the rights bits you want, added, is ok. I wanted something more like the Gnome notification drop down that had do not disturb, media player controls, extensible menus, etc. in it.

[–] Nimrod@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I just have one that launches blueman-manager. Not elegant, but works well. I only ever use BT on my laptop. So my desktop doesn’t even have it.

For music control I added a custom Spotify element to my waybar that shows now-playing, and lets me play/pause/skip/etc without having to go back to workspace 1. That’s all I need.

Tiling is just so nice once you get used to it. No more fiddling around with window placement.