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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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[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] eugenia@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

Depends on the computer I run. On fast computers (more than 5,000 passmark cpu points), i use gnome on whatever distro. On mid-speed computers (1000 to 5000 points), I use linux mint with cinnamon. On very old computers (400-1000), I use debian with XFce.

[–] memphis@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gaming PC: GNOME (it works fine and I don't care about much else there)

Laptop: dwl (dwm for Wayland) and suckless tools. Ultra lightweight and comfy for browsing and watching videos. Usually at the same time.

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[–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago

KDE on my main laptop, Cinnamon on the TV-connected mini-PC in my living room. I like the customization options of KDE, and with Cinnamon I just wanted to test out Linux Mint, no big reason other than that. I used GNOME for some time with Pop_OS!, and it was not fully my thing. I plan to test out more DEs when I can free up an older laptop to do some more experimentation - for my main laptop I require stability, so I don't mess around with it too much.

[–] halm@leminal.space 3 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

None. Openbox WM with Tint2 as a rudimentary system bar, Rofi as launcher.

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[–] prunerye@slrpnk.net 1 points 18 hours ago

KDE, because I'm too lazy to switch back to XFCE, which offered every feature I already use in KDE except without the stuttering, the bugs, and the update cycle that breaks things way, way too often on a rolling release distro.

Or openbox. My old laptop has openbox, but that's more for screwing around with EWW than doing day-to-day things.

[–] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

XFCE. it's dumb, simple, it gives you a panel to access your programs, your desktop icons, and nothing else. I just want my computer to let me do my things, not have a built-in 'brew a cup of coffee' button

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[–] scriptGoober@linux.community 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

i use zorin os's gnome with forge, once cosmic comes out ill switch to that

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 20 hours ago

I'm really looking forward to the release version of Cosmic. Used to be a fan of Gnome-based Cosmic on PopOS, but Pop just kept on "popping" so I moved to Fedora Workstation. I have never looked back.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

I have numerous machines and use several. On my main, KDE because of all the customization. Widgets, window styles, colors, themes etc. It's really like exactly how I want for maximum efficiency and productivity.

I've got gnome on my hybrid notebook and my transformer pad because gnome with Wayland is amazingly compatible with touchscreen.

I have one machine running Elementary which has the Pantheon DE it's kinda like Gnome with modifications.

And finally, I have an older system so just for efficiency, LXQt.

I do enjoy trying out different ones and especially more esoteric ones that I occasionally come across.

[–] dallen@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

GNOME. Love the simplicity!

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 19 hours ago

Gnome because it came with ubuntu and I'm too scared to change it to kde incase everything breaks. Really don't want to reinstall something else again either

[–] it3agle@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Budgie, because I like the way it looks.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Budgie has great potential. I really love the look and feel. And I especially love the side bar. I feel that's a feature that's missing in KDE.

Budgie however isn't "there" yet. I've experienced quite a few bugs using it and it's still missing a few features. But it's getting there. It might become my go to one day.

[–] scorp@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

it would be great if the budgie team would integrate budgie-extras (which is a collection of Applets) made by UbuntuBudgie contributors by default, i've had it installed on my Fedora Budgie system from the copr repo and it basically completed the experience for me

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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I gave an original Surface Pro tablet and I use Ubuntu's Gnome on it. It's perfect for tablets I find. Not so great for desktop PCs.

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[–] IceVAN@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago (6 children)

After trying mostly everything, I always come back to my "custom desktop": (openbox + xfce4-panel + thunar + xfce4-terminal + dunst) .. for the last 15 years or so. It doesn't get in the way, is fast AF, it takes very very little ram/cpu (4.5 Mb !!) and it has everything I need (even tiling via keyboard). It's VERY customizable and it does as I tell. No crashes, no weirdeness. It just works. I will probably move to labwc in a future, just because.. wayland. And now I'm about to use it on a steam deck... it's gonna be fun.

[–] halm@leminal.space 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Same. Didn't know about labwc, will look imto it when I switch to Wayland someday!

Did you come off a Crunchbang distro as well? 🙂

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[–] Matty@lemmy.autism.place 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

XFCE as I like the look of the classic Windows layout. Might eventually try out KDE for Wayland support but there's something about the simplicity of XFCE which I love.

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Plasma.

When I try Gnome, within a couple minutes I encounter the Save dialog that defaults the cursor to the Search field instead of the Filename field, and the top of my head goes spinning across the room, and I uninstall it.

[–] grapemix@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Enlightenment. It's pretty and really fast. Of course you can't complete with the speed of tile wm. But their development speed is so slow....

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Hyprland on my desktop

GNOME on my laptop

[–] AutoPastry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

KDE Plasma

It was what came on the steam deck lol

[–] Magister@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I'm old, I come from old X11R4 time, motif, mwm, twm, fvwm, things from previous century. In modern Linux I used mostly gnome, and Cinnamon for a few years and tried to love it but cannot, I finally went back to Xfce because it works, it's simple, neat, nice, I have no icon on my desktop, I have a kind of windows 3 setup: a startup menu (and some quick launches), the window bar, the notification area with time etc

I'm using MX Linux for maybe 8 years now with Xfce

updated screenshot:

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[–] nyan@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TDE. Functional, stays out of my way, but still reasonably full-featured. The development team is dedicated to adding useful features while keeping the original look and feel, so I don't have to go hunting for settings that have inexplicably moved or changed defaults every time I update. It doesn't support Wayland, but I'm Wayland-neutral (that is, I have nothing against it, but I have nothing against X either).

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[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use Mate. When I first started using a Desktop in addition to terminals, it was with Redhat 6.1, Redhat came with Gnome-2, I got used to it. I didn't like the changes made in Gnome-3, so I switched to Mate which retained, or at least had the option to be configured to look as I was used to it, save for more refined graphics. It also works well remotely so that's another reason I use it as much of my work involves remote acess.

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[–] AtomicHotSauce@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Currently, Plasma. But I have ADHD a bit, so I’ve gone back and forth between that and Gnome mostly. I do like Cinnamon and I really want to spend time with Xfce and maybe others just to see what feels most comfortable right now. I’m trying to go for keyboard comfort these days, so we’ll see where I land at some point!

[–] stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For my main workstation and main laptop:

  • Cosmic themed GNOME - I just like the way it looks and works without any changes. The basic tiling functions are something I find helpful at times too.
  • Plasma 6 - It works pretty well and looks nice. I don't do a lot of customization, so it's not a big deal to me. For my other machines I'm currently using Cinnamon, GNOME, Budgie, and LXDE.
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[–] Trent@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Xfce. Partly because I've used it for a long time, but mostly because it does what I need it to do and little else.

[–] banshee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I currently use Gnome on my laptop, but I've toyed with returning to KDE for a while. I used KDE briefly back in the v3 and v4 days felt like it was a bit bloated compared to Gnome v1 and v2. Cinnamon is nice but a bit heavyweight on graphics. I should probably return to XFCE or Mate.

[–] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Am I the only one on here using Budgie. I just feel more comfortable with the workflow using Budgie.

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