• Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
    1·
    4 minutes ago

    KDE is my favorite, but I’m excited to try Cosmic once it’s a little farther along.

    I also love Cinnamon, not because it looks great, or has a ton of customizablity, but because it is so stable. It’s been the best #JustWorks DE in my experience.

    Those are the only two I use regularly. Xfce is nice once you get it customized, but it’s kind of a pain to get configured. I don’t have much use for sophisticated tiling, so tiling window managers are just curiosities to me. I’ve played with i3, Sway, Hyprland, and a few others over the years.

    I wish I had a use case for them, but alas, all my day to day needs are handled just fine with basic Window snapping, tmux, kitty tabs, and occasionally using a second virtual desktop.

  • Schiffsmädchenjunge@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    58 minutes ago

    I’ve been using KDE since ver 2.something.
    I like the idea of tiling window managers.
    But I’m old.
    I’m set in my ways.
    I don’t want to get used to new things.

  • ranzispa@mander.xyz
    2·
    59 minutes ago

    I’ve been using kde for years and really enjoyed the fact that it was simple and worked out of the box.

    Recently I heard about niri, I had a look and thought it was cool. I set it up with a desktop environment around it and in less than 1 hour I had a working de. I’ve been using it a couple weeks now on my work computer and I have to say that I’m really enjoying it, I feel it makes many operations much simpler and moving around different windows is very easy.

    I use two screens, and I really like that I can have the applications bar on both on them, which was one major gripe I had with plasma.

    • polycephalum@lemmy.today
      2·
      43 minutes ago

      I use two screens, and I really like that I can have the applications bar on both on them, which was one major gripe I had with plasma.

      Csn’t you just add a new panel to your second display and add the applications applet? In plasma 6.3 you can even clone your panel. Or am I misunderstanding?

    • macros@feddit.org
      1·
      35 minutes ago

      You can easily do that on plasma. Just add a panel and add the widget you prefer (only icons, or icons and window titles)

  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    45·
    4 hours ago

    Desktop environment, and OS in general is just something you eventually find one you like, and there’s no need to change. It’s GNOME for me, it just works in a way that doesn’t get on my way and that’s all it needs to be

      • Bluefruit@lemmy.world
        1·
        31 minutes ago

        That gave me a good laugh. Gnome doesnt feel right to me at all man. To each his own.

        But yea, sicko fr

    • eli@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 hours ago

      And I absolutely hate Gnome. But thank god we have over a dozen DEs to choose from. One of the great things about Linux is user choice.

      • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        2 hours ago

        Exactly. You can install your beloved distro with just what software you want there, because it’s your fucking device

    • MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works
      23·
      4 hours ago

      This guy has a preference that differs from mine! Get him! /s

      Yeah idk, I tried Pop with GNOME and just wasn’t feeling it. Switched to Mint Cinnamon and it’s a little more intuitive for me. I’m just a general user, gonna game if/when costs come down enough to build a desktop to replace my 2015 laptop. By then, I’m sure another distro will be a better fit for me. There are options for a reason.

    • real_squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      6·
      4 hours ago

      DEs from one distro to another can feel different too, idk what it is about Manjaro but it feels so much more responsive than KDE’s own distro. So I think it’s worth trying our different distros even with the same desktop environment

  • orlyowl@piefed.caEnglish
    5·
    3 hours ago

    I’ve been using Linux for twenty years. I didn’t use KDE until they declared Plasma 5 ready for primetime. (I hated Plasma 4, and didn’t like the look and feel of KDE 3.5 at all)

    Since hopping on with Plasma 5 I have absolutely no interest in anything else. I love KDE Plasma and it just keeps getting better.

    That’s me in OP.

  • ReCursing@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    3 hours ago

    I’ve yet to see anything that compares to kde, and I just don’t understand why so many distros default to gnome!

  • smeg@infosec.pubEnglish
    7·
    4 hours ago

    I just want a conventional desktop paradigm that feels relatively integrated. For almost a decade I used Cinnamon until I found myself really wanting Wayland. For the past 5 years or so, I have used GNOME. It’s clean, and with a few tweaks it meets my needs.