Been on Awesome WM since '08, but once dappled with KDE. Does it still have resource hungry processes that I have no use for (IIRC, Akonadi or daemons related to it were one of those problematic components)?
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KDE's absolutely excellent, but if you need every little kilobyte RAM, go Sway. Sway—It's Technically Graphical ™
i have tried kde and i cannot understand how so many people love it and hate gnome
Me either. I use Plasma because I prefer the whole workflow but I’m fine with GNOME, it’s just a bit shit out of the box, which I think is part of the problem it feels so much more modern and the settings menu is much better, plus all the GNOME apps feel lightyears ahead of the half-baked KDE stuff. I wish they’d stop adding obscure features nobody uses and just work on the polish (though I think they’re doing a bit of that now with the new login screen and unified theming).
Try danklinux.com for an easy Niri install. Thank me later.
I went from Gnome 2 to Mate, and switched to Plasma last year. Can't see myself moving away anytime soon XD
Still waiting for XFCE‘s Wayland support. Until then Plasma it is
Booooo Wayland
I miss being on XFCE, I'll be so quick to go back when their wayland transition is done
After using Hyprland for 2 years I can say it's my favorite am by far for fun and productivity, however it's not stable at all
I've found hyprland itself is very stable, but what you run on top of it often compromises that. Using end 4 dots as a base on cachy has been a superb experience for me. Had a lot of issues with my completely custom hypr on tumbleweed (not tumbleweed's fault tho)
the first DE I used on Linux was cinnamon and I was like “wow, this is great, everything makes sense to me out of the box”
And then I tried Gnome and was incredibly put off by it, like “why the hell is this over here, this layout is strange to me. Why are all these unconventional features on by default, this is very annoying.”
And then I tried KDE and I was like “wow, this is great and everything makes sense to me out of the box, also there’s all these features and options, I don’t know what they do, but i don’t have to interact with them if I don’t want to.”
I tried lots of DE's when distros started switching to GNOME 3.
Now I just run Xfce on everything.
KDE ftw
I’ve used GNOME and I’ve used KDE. Don’t have a problem with GNOME but KDE is just how I like my desktop experience to act. I am intrigued about Cosmic though.
KDE and GNOME each have their shortcomings. KDE has never been completely stable for me but it’s so much better than it used to be. GNOME is the best at what it’s good at and the worst at everything else. There’s no grey area with gnome.
Cosmic looks super promising. I need to play with it.
Desktop environment, and OS in general is just something you eventually find one you like, and there's no need to change. It's GNOME for me, it just works in a way that doesn't get on my way and that's all it needs to be
Same, and the OS is Ubuntu for me. I use my computer to get stuff done, not for distrohopping (though that's also a perfectly valid usecase if you find it fun 👍)
Yeah. I was also at Ubuntu after couple years of distro hopping, until they made a change I didn't like so I just hopped to Debian and been there past 3 releases
It's GNOME for me
Sicko
That gave me a good laugh. Gnome doesnt feel right to me at all man. To each his own.
But yea, sicko fr
And I absolutely hate Gnome. But thank god we have over a dozen DEs to choose from. One of the great things about Linux is user choice.
Exactly. You can install your beloved distro with just what software you want there, because it's your fucking device
This guy has a preference that differs from mine! Get him! /s
Yeah idk, I tried Pop with GNOME and just wasn't feeling it. Switched to Mint Cinnamon and it's a little more intuitive for me. I'm just a general user, gonna game if/when costs come down enough to build a desktop to replace my 2015 laptop. By then, I'm sure another distro will be a better fit for me. There are options for a reason.
Do you have to run GNOME with PopOS? I was thinking of trying PopOS
Pop now uses cosmic
I like gnome on my older gaming desktop. It's a 2080 ti so when i installed plasma was not super stable on nvidia but I wouldn't change it, arc menu + dash panel and I'm all set. I prefer kde on the laptop though. All the extra bells and whistles feel more useful on a laptop (no mouse).
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KDE is my favorite, but I'm excited to try Cosmic once it's a little farther along.
I also love Cinnamon, not because it looks great, or has a ton of customizablity, but because it is so stable. It's been the best #JustWorks DE in my experience.
Those are the only two I use regularly. Xfce is nice once you get it customized, but it's kind of a pain to get configured. I don't have much use for sophisticated tiling, so tiling window managers are just curiosities to me. I've played with i3, Sway, Hyprland, and a few others over the years.
I wish I had a use case for them, but alas, all my day to day needs are handled just fine with basic Window snapping, tmux, kitty tabs, and occasionally using a second virtual desktop.
I've been using KDE since ver 2.something.
I like the idea of tiling window managers.
But I'm old.
I'm set in my ways.
I don't want to get used to new things.
KDE has tiling.
I've been using kde for years and really enjoyed the fact that it was simple and worked out of the box.
Recently I heard about niri, I had a look and thought it was cool. I set it up with a desktop environment around it and in less than 1 hour I had a working de. I've been using it a couple weeks now on my work computer and I have to say that I'm really enjoying it, I feel it makes many operations much simpler and moving around different windows is very easy.
I use two screens, and I really like that I can have the applications bar on both on them, which was one major gripe I had with plasma.
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I quite like KDE Plasma on my steam deck, but on my desktops I always use XFCE
Ironic given XFCE is supposed to be the light weight one and the steam deck is the portable device.
I like both of them, though. Plenty of customizations in both, not that I tinker around much any more.
I just want a conventional desktop paradigm that feels relatively integrated. For almost a decade I used Cinnamon until I found myself really wanting Wayland. For the past 5 years or so, I have used GNOME. It's clean, and with a few tweaks it meets my needs.
I've yet to see anything that compares to kde, and I just don't understand why so many distros default to gnome!
Never had a problem with XFCE, even doing some weird stuff with metrics in the task bar.
Though I do not tinker like I did when I was younger, nor do I know what Plasma has over XFCE that's not cosmetic in nature.
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I know when I reload it wont be kde.
I've been using Linux for twenty years. I didn't use KDE until they declared Plasma 5 ready for primetime. (I hated Plasma 4, and didn't like the look and feel of KDE 3.5 at all)
Since hopping on with Plasma 5 I have absolutely no interest in anything else. I love KDE Plasma and it just keeps getting better.
That's me in OP.
I was really surprised how great the workflow of paperWM is. If you like a "scroller" with a working DE and don't want to configure niri: give it a try. I don't even want tilers anymore.
I'm interested in other DEs, i swear! I just don't use them, or like them!
Lxqt and i3 4lyfe
Using a Chromebook you gotta levy usage with processing ability.
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