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What desktop enviroment do you use and why? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Mwa@thelemmy.club to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] davi@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I use KDE plasma 5 atm and i planning on an upgrade to 6 soon; but it's my daily driver so I've dragging my feet on it for a couple weeks now.

What happened when tried troubleshooting those problems you had?

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I love gnome and use that for everything except gaming. If I want to game I use KDE

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[–] Voltage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Cosmic, just trying it out because i liked the extensions system76 made for gnome, and cosmic DE is more native experience of that.

[–] owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Xfce

I've daily driven every major DE except KDE (GNOME, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon) and I always ended up switching back to xfce. I'm not a fan of GNOME's workflow and since it's not that customizable without extensions, that made me switch from it very quickly. I used Cinnamon on Mint for a few months and while the experience was mostly fine, it sometimes felt a bit laggy. As for MATE, while I love the GNOME 2 layout and it's a relatively lightweight DE, I encountered plenty of visual bugs there and I could very easily replicate that GNOME 2 layout on Xfce (without a system menu, but still).

[–] TheV2@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use herbstluftwm. The configuration is straightforward and it fits my minimal needs.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 months ago

Oh yeah I remember that wm coming with antix

[–] peppers_ghost@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Gnome on laptop, KDE on desktop. I go back and forth with those DEs.

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I use Windows because it just works

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[–] fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Nobody uses cinnamon? Honestly - I really like using cinnamon with Debian. I heard that they promised not to fuck with the UI for no reason unlike... everyone! @Mwa Cinnamon is a fairly nice, easy to use desktop - I don't really care which is better, but if they change it, you have to re-learn it. Top tip for UI design - don't think that your users want to re-learn how to interact with your UI - they might go outside, or elsewhere.

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