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If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it's Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)...etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.

Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the "Flagship Manjaro version". I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.

After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.

What about you guys?

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[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Desktop environment? Who needs a desktop environment?

[–] HotCoffee@lemm.ee 22 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Bro watches videos through ASCII conversion in the cli😭

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

mpv for the win

but if you really want your ASCII conversion: mpv --vo=caca or mpv --vo=tct

[–] HotCoffee@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago

It's actually possible! Thats amazing lol

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

TBH, I've always wanted to do this.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Bro doesn't need DE to watch videos. Bro doesn't need DE to do anything.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago

Bad apple in text may be more impressive than it on the Nintendo.