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
I use GNOME.
Great wallpaper. This is the original artist: https://www.deviantart.com/arsenixc
Yes! There are several variations of it and I use dwall to change them according to daytime.
I enjoy having dynamic wallpapers from this package.
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
Lol read this comment first then understood the last sentence after a short stroll. Take my up vote!
Hah! Lemmy.world issues maybe?
I’m surprised you mentioning that after I only sent that twenty times :-D
Kde, let me change everything every time I get bored instead of switching to a whole different WM.
Valid!
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.
I’m using xfce. It’s on endeavros as I like to belong to the arch crowd without working with the lengthly set up from scratch.
I prefer xfce as anything of note is accessible with a few minor exceptions due to endeavros security concerns such as Bluetooth which requires a quick systemctl command.
I started off with it after discovering ubuntu and trying the xfce version. I liked it and went through a few distros including crunchbang with openbox but ultimately xfce is a very straightforward experience for me and fairly customisable. The only drawback is it doesn’t look like some of the awesome screenshots I’ve seen of i3 or other tiling managers but as a teacher I don’t do development or have that much knowledge to tinker so xfce is my go-to.
XFCE is also very light on resources and it looks better than LXDE so I always install XFCE on old laptops.
Arch now has a guided installer that makes it just as easy as any other distro
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.
I recently switched to hyprland, love it!
i3 with dmenu and polybar. Such a great and efficient setup for school and work, love it.
That’s the setup I tried to get used to. I miiight still have it, although it was on my testing VM so I think I have reinstalled since then
Xfce on Manjaro VM. Love it.
I just use GNOME with a few extensions. Works fairly well for me.
long time i3 user, now switched to sway
I’ve seen people mention Sway every once in a while. What’s the benefit over i3 if you don’t mind me asking?
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I just jumped up on the Hyprland band wagon (4 weeks ago). Very pleased with it so far!
AwesomeWM and KDE as a fallback when I mess my configuration.
qtile and picom. It took some getting used to but I never want to leave the luxury of dynamic tiling.
I used to build e17 / Enlightenment on Arch for years, was kinda cool and I learned a lot about building packages, but now I don’t care anymore and I just use gnome. Or rather I’m using Firefox and a terminal and that’s pretty much it. Oh and Gimp every once in a while. But most of the time it’s fullscreen Firefox so who cares what de is behind it as long as it just works
