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Caboose12000 ,

maybe this is a hot take but I just really like vanilla KDE. I don’t even customize that much, I just think it looks and feels nice out of the box

whs ,

GNOME 2. I tried 3 for a year or two and the task bar crashes or lack the very basic feature of swapping window position. It’s an external plugin so I don’t expect it to be fixed in any year soon. Then I realize GNOME 2 was perfect before they ruined it in 3 so now I’ve been on MATE desktop for 4 years now. I think the new team is too small to catch up on any modern changes (webp support is lacking, and no wayland) and nothing I could do can fix that (minor development work on build system, donation) but I’d still accept a perfect 2010 era desktop over 2023 desktop that doesn’t feel right after a decade of development.

electric_nan ,

Cinnamon. It’s comfy.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I recently switched back to GNOME after a few years on KDE, mostly because of Wayland support. I honestly don’t care much about the DE, provided it gets out of my way. I used to use a Tiling WM, so I may give a Wayland tiling WM a shot.

thanksforallthefish ,

Hmm I am using Wayland on KDE for 6-12months with no problem, why did you need to swap to Gnome to get it working ?

Just curious, no tribal warfare intended (the gnome vs kde fight is a bit silly to me)

sugar_in_your_tea ,

IDK, Wayland was super unstable for me on KDE, even on my AMD GPU (RX 6650XT). It wouldn’t launch at all through SDDM (black screen, and I checked other TTYs), and it would lock up quickly (maybe a kernel panic?, I couldn’t even switch TTYs) when I launched through the command line. I used NVIDIA before that, and couldn’t get KDE to launch at all on Wayland (GNOME did, but was buggy), so I used KDE on X until I replaced my GPU.

I honestly didn’t look much into it, but launching GNOME through GDM worked perfectly, so I didn’t feel the need to debug further.

My goal was to use Wayland, and I didn’t particularly care which DE did it. I have a slight preference for KDE, but I honestly don’t use enough DE features to care too much, I just want something to launch apps and then go away. As long as it has a decent terminal with tmux, can switch windows, and has a clock with a calendar, that’s enough for me.

thanksforallthefish ,

Interesting. I’m using the 6600 on arch kde wayland with no problems. I wonder what caused your issues.

Anyway as you say if you’ve got a working setup great.

Unkend ,

Mate i had far less issues with it.

atetulo ,

KDE

It’s like a swiss-army knife of DEs.

I try to make it look like Windows 7.

OddFed ,
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A person saying ‘they had us in the first half not gonna lie’

Alch_Fox ,
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Switched to GNOME a couple of months ago from KDE. Very much love the function of GNOME, but still prefer the customizability of KDE.

demesisx ,
@demesisx@infosec.pub avatar

Xmonad!!!

amadeus ,

I like Vanilla GNOME the best atm.

micnd90 ,

https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/eb1390f6-155e-4d34-886e-3b29fe5acaf9.png

heygooberman ,
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I much prefer Cinnamon.

zpoex ,
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I use Hyprland, but if not, then GNOME… It’s just pretty and easy to use out of the box

pathief ,
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Man, Hyprland looks so cool. It’s unfortunate I own an Nvidia GPU, it shits she bed even on Wayland KDE

bogpunk ,

GNOME. A lot of people customize it to look and behave more like Windows or Macos, and I used to as well, but after giving the default configuration a chance and getting used to it, I prefer it over everything else. It’s way more focused and organized, and I can navigate through my open windows quicker and easier. It’s just a different workflow you need to adjust your brain to.

GenBlob ,

GNOME

5ublimation ,
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I prefer Plasma, but having an nvidia GPU makes using wayland a non-starter.

XFCE is my second favorite.

AwesomeWM is my current daily driver but outside the scope of the question

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