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What desktop enviroment do you use and why? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Mwa@thelemmy.club to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] paolab@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Currently I am on KDE, but I am an xfce lover. I can't wait for the next xfce update and for Cosmic.

I am living KDE almost default. I have the impression that with too much customisation problems come.

Xfce is rock solid and rock solid after customisation too. It is truly amazing.

Gnome needs far too many extension for me to be usable. And so I avoid it.

Cinnamon is great too, but it's in the middle. If I don't want to use Wayland, at that point there is xfce.

[–] surrealpartisan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Qtile, just because it's Python-based.

[–] faultypidgeon@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How is being python-based a good thing?

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[–] Charadon@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

KDE Plasma 5.

It's default on Slackware =P

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[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

KDE at home "gaming" desktop, but would love to move away from it, for various bugs and non-working configurations. At work and home laptop I am using WMs, riverwm / i3.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 weeks ago

Same, I wanna move to another desktop.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

What broke with tracker3 ?

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[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks 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

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