I wanted to get a feel for everyone’s thoughts on desktop environments (or window managers if you don’t use a DE). I’m new to Lemmy, so apologies if this is too low-effort a post.

Personally I’m running KDE on my main computer, but I have an Arch virtual machine I use for more experimentation. That VM has seen KDE, i3, and will probably see hyprland at some point soon

  • RainRaining@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    I use a window manager, Openbox. It’s great once you have your personal config file and shortcuts! Also, I can’t be sure but I think @mutoroglin@feddit.nl recently switched to Hyperland lol

  • kyub@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Gnome. It just seems simple, elegant and smooth. It does what I need from a DE (not that much, I do a lot in terminal and Emacs). It has good keybindings out of the box and good virtual desktop mechanisms. It was also the first DE with good Wayland support. At first I was unsure if I liked Gnome’s concept and restrictions, but I’ve grown to like it fast.

  • CocoLopez@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Kde, let me change everything every time I get bored instead of switching to a whole different WM.

  • myxi@feddit.nl
    3·
    1 year ago

    I have Plasma installed on my Arch based installation, but I hardly use it since I also have i3 installed which I adore.

    My i3 setup looks very similar to my Plasma setup, I prefer window managers because they are more productive to use.

  • laskobar@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m switching between Arch and Manjaro, but I’m using mostly Gnome. Recently I had some weeks with KDE, but since Evolution is not well integrated, I’m using Gnome now again. Kmail is uncomfortable and total illogical for me. I don’t get it to work the way I need it. Maybe the redesigned Thunderbird changes my mind, but there was a lot illogical other workflows on KDE on top. So I think I stay with Gnome or switch to XFCE.

  • n8schicht@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    For years I was using KDE, but since 2-3 years I’m now using Cinnamon: it’s fast, it’s uncluttered, it gets the job done. I like it 😊

  • ghostwolf@lemmy.fakeplastictrees.ee
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve switched to LXQt recently. I like KDE and use mostly Qt apps, but KDE itself has too many features I don’t really need. So far so good, I can’t say I miss anything.

  • mutoroglin@feddit.nl
    2·
    1 year ago

    I recently switched to hyprland and I love. I used plasma before but wanted to touch base with a tiling wm.

    Sorry for the spam. These are my first activities with Lemmy, guess I should click less and be more patient