• OldFartPhil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    GNOME. Been using Linux since before GNOME Shell was a thing and when it became a thing it just clicked for me. In my opinion, it’s by far the most polished DE and provides the most elegant and intuitive launcher and workspace switcher of any DE or OS I’ve used. At least they did, until they fucked it up by moving from vertical to horizontal workspaces and made the workspace previews so small you can no longer see what’s in them.

    Which is the downside of GNOME. Sometimes their developers are their own worst enemies. Fortunately, there are usually extensions to fix the most egregious “enhancements”.

  • Justin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I use Gnome with the pop-os tweaks: shell, launcher, and workspaces. Looking forward to the new COSMIC DE from System76.

    • acqrs@acqrs.co.ukEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Absolutely same here, though it’s also ruined my ability to use gnome or KDE or really anything else too…

  • DeltaWhy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Currently on hyprland after using sway for a couple years. I also don’t mind KDE - I just got the Pinetab 2 and I’m running Plasma Mobile on it. Though I’ve been wanting to try hyprland on that as well, maybe with one of the NWG launchers.

  • Xylight (Photon dev)@lemmy.xylight.devEnglish
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    2 years ago

    GNOME. I love the ecosystem of apps and the great design and simplicity, even if I sacrifice customization and features.

    GNOME is designers trying to develop a DE

    KDE is developers trying to design a DE.

    • sibloure@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Lack of customization is a feature for me. I waste too much time fiddling with configuration otherwise trying to get everything set up how I want. Gnome is ready to go out of the box.

    • sgtnasty@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I like to say that GNOME is a consumer DE, while KDE is a hobbyist DE. I let my wife use GNOME cause of simplicity, but I use KDE Plasma for my desktops.

  • _spiffy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Sway and I love it. A bit of a hassle to configure but once it’s set up how I like it’s then it’s great! I tried hyprland for a bit and it was super shiny but I just haven’t had the time to tweak.

  • thebirdwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    xmonad on my desktop, KDE on my laptop, haven’t felt like setting up xmonad on there and KDE last I checked doesn’t work correctly on my desktop since I use the Nvidia viewport settings to get my displays to act as 1080p displays.

  • geekworking@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    KDE.

    Back when everyone was failing horribly trying to come up with a new desktop that nobody wanted KDE was the only one to get it right.

    Instead of trying to shovel some bullshit “next generation” interface down your throat they decided to make all of the interface parts modular.

    If you want traditional start menu you can have it, want Mac style dock got that covered, want a touch/table type interface it’s in there. If you can’t make up your mind you can setup activities to flip back and forth.

  • Kogasa@programming.devEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Sway for going on 2 years I think. I do recommend it, and Wayland/tiling wms in general.

    I use my own fork that uses bspwm-style “long-side split by default,” and a nearly transparent under-the-hood container-squashing refactor that prevents this behavior from causing the tree to become bloated with invisible nodes and start to lag horribly. The fix won’t be accepted in Sway since it’s the bug is faithfully reproduced from i3, and I haven’t had time to rewrite it for i3. But if you use something like sway-autotiling, you’ve probably noticed the issue.

  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I used GNOME but a bunch of angry Linux fanboys told me my worth as a human was nonexistent since I didn’t have XFCE installed so I installed Mac OSX instead. Loving clippy rn.