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Vorthas ,
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MATE as is or Xfce with some MATE software (swapping Thunar for Caja, swapping the XFCE calculator program for MATE’s calculator, using Engrampa instead of whatever Xfce uses for a file archive manager, etc.). I like things simple and following roughly the same paradigm that I’ve used for years.

And for the love of god, PLEASE KEEP MENU BARS AS THEY WERE IN THE PAST! Stop removing menu bars from programs in favor of “hamburger buttons” or whatever nonsense modern programs like to use! That’s honestly one of my biggest gripes with “modern” software, they keep changing the paradigm to something that I haven’t used and I can’t be bothered to relearn everything.

russjr08 ,
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Generally Plasma. I really like the look of Libadwaita applications, but the GNOME desktop is very much a “do it our way, or take a hike” - and some of the interactions that I’ve seen in the past between the GNOME group and others… well, lets just say whenever I see drama in the Linux community as of recently its always been either with GNOME or Wayland. That doesn’t necessarily instill a lot of confidence in me using either of those.

governorkeagan OP ,

What’s with all the drama regarding Wayland? I’m seeing it constantly.

russjr08 ,
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As far as I understand, its the major push for moving forward with Wayland and dropping X11 as fast as possible yet Wayland still doesn’t work for a lot of workflows (say, making use of global hotkeys, or Nvidia users, etc).

lemmyvore ,

Some Wayland fans like to ignore reality, like the fact 80% of Linux users use Nvidia, or that Nvidia offers a free Linux driver for their own reasons and have zero incentive to open source it, or that even if it weren’t for Nvidia we still can’t use Wayland because it’s not ready and doesn’t do everything that X does.

When you ignore reality you tend to get into arguments constantly.

flashgnash ,

Started with GNOME, then once I got more comfortable I jumped ship to hyprland

KDE or cinnamon are probably the closest ones to windows if you’re looking for familiarity but I think gnome/tiling wms improve on that

Hyprland and other tiling wms are great but only if you’re the kind of person who likes to tinker and fiddle constantly

governorkeagan OP ,

I do enjoy tinkering so I might play with it on a VM

flashgnash ,

Just bare in mind you start with basically nothing with many of the tilers, gotta install your own top bar, app launcher, guis for WiFi,Bluetooth, audio devices

I would not recommend you try it as your first daily driver

governorkeagan OP ,

Totally agree! I won’t be installing it as a daily driver anytime soon

lemmyvore ,

I also feel that tilers with best when used mainly with apps that have extensive keyboard support. If you have to switch between keyboard and mouse too much it breaks the flow. But I can see it working with a track pad or nub.

flashgnash ,

“keyboards are for the weak” Opens paint“Shiiiiit”

Fuck_u_spez_ ,

only if you’re the kind of person who likes to tinker and fiddle constantly

What if, completely hypothetically, I’m the kind of person who is incredibly lazy and just wants things to work out of the box with minimal effort and maintenance?

Pega ,

Definitely Gnome

vrighter ,

but not if you want two or more windows on screen at the same time. It hates you if you want that

flashgnash ,

Gnome or pantheon

lemmyvore ,

Any classic desktop environment will work, you don’t have to tinker with them unless you don’t like the default organization and settings. But there’s no way to guess what you’d like out of the box.

Tiling window managers are a niche for power users, they’re a different category.

NiaTheCat , (edited )
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The only ones I’ve really ended up liking are KDE Plasma, and Cosmic (both the modified Gnome verison, and hopefully the Rust version in the future too. Right now I’m enjoying Cosmic more than KDE Plasma so I have high hopes for it

dark_stang ,
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I love how Cosmic just stays out of your way and let’s you work. Never looked back after switching to it, hopefully the new one is the same thing but faster.

nothendev ,

Hyprland. Fast, wayland, tiling, animated. Checks off all the boxes and just works™.

Commiunism ,

sway on wayland (the only WM that doesn’t crash even though it lacks a lot of features), awesomewm on xorg (fast and very customizable, but has quirks)

Secret300 ,

When I first switched from windows I loved KDE. Then I felt frisky and tried Gnome. Now I love them both

MrTHXcertified ,

Started with XFCE but migrated away due to bugginess with my outdated system. Next was KDE. I was pleasantly surprised by how lightweight it ended up being after hearing otherwise. Now I’m on Sway, and it makes this old computer scream!

callyral ,
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plasma, xfce and sway/swayfx.

plasma and xfce are DEs, sway is a wlroots-based wayland compositor (tiling window manager).

raubarno ,

I got used to XFCE, but, with my new awesome Tuxedo laptop, I got KDE as a DE for a stock OS, and I could say it feels much more complete. But the performance drops, when opening a terminal, for example.

recarsion ,

KDE and Cinnamon.

JoeKrogan ,
@JoeKrogan@lemmy.world avatar

KDE

SkySyrup ,

I use gnome as a primary, it feels really polished and doesn’t break or crash. Very modern, but if you want to have a super-customized experience, you’re gonna have a bad time. Extensions break every update and so do themes, so you either wait for the dev to port it or so it yourself. Annoying, so I only use vanilla for now.

Maybe I’ll try plasma, looks cool.

turbowafflz ,

Keep in mind I am insane and you shouldn’t take this as a recommendation unless you are also weird in the ways I am, but I absolutely love NsCDE, it’s an FVWM based modern clone of the old CDE desktop from old UNIXs and VMS and it is so so well executed and I love it.

danielfgom ,
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Cinnamon at the moment because I’m running LMDE 6. After that it would be gnome however it does have a higher RAM usage. I find Gnome based DE’s easier to read and understand.

Whereas KDE just confuses me with its illegible font, awful icons (especially in Libre Office) and the nonsensical horizontal blue lines in some settings.

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