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)
- Jure Repinc ( @JRepin@lemmy.ml ) English35•25 days ago
KDE Plasma on all my computers and also as desktop mode on Steam Deck. because it supports the latest technologies especially when it comes to graphics (HDR, VRR) also has best support for Wayland and multi-monitors. It looks great out of the box and it has a lot of features out of the box and I do not need to battle with adding some extensions that break with almost every update. KDE Plasma is also the most flexible desktop and I can set the workflow really to fit my desires and I can actually set many options and settings. And despite all these built-in features and configurability it still uses very few system resources and is very fast and smooth. Oh and the KDE community is one of the most welcoming I have met in FOSS world, and they listen to their users instead of the our way or the high way mentality I have so often encountered in GNOME for example. So yeah TLDR KDE Plasma is the one I like the most of all in the industry, even when compared to proprietary closed alternatives.
- supermair ( @supermair@lemmy.ca ) English25•25 days ago
GNOME. Eagerly waiting for cosmic.
- Aggravationstation ( @Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ) 4•25 days ago
Same. Gnome currently but will certainly be trying Cosmic
- variants ( @variants@possumpat.io ) English4•25 days ago
I think that’s what popos comes with, never looked into what the differences are between them or why one would want to switch
- Katzenmann ( @Katzenmann@feddit.org ) English3•25 days ago
I already use the cosmic alpha and it works great. No crashes so far, the only thing that has happend twice in 2 Months of using it is the screen locker did not display after waking up from suspend which meant I needed to go to a VT and kill cosmic-session
- huquad ( @huquad@lemmy.ml ) English2•24 days ago
I tried it and mostly love it. It’s not quite polished enough yet for me and I have two main complaints. First, half of my keyboard shortcuts don’t work anymore, and I wasn’t able to fix that last I tried. Second, it wouldn’t let me lock my computer or suspend. Had to shutdown everytime. Other than that and random librecalc crashes, I’m excited to see where it is in the coming months. Really rooting for the pop team
- Ham Strokers Ejacula ( @Backlog3231@reddthat.com ) English3•25 days ago
I like gnome also. I’m going to try cosmic de but probably won’t use it full time.
I do use the PaperWM and dash to dock extensions, so it isn’t stock gnome. I normally don’t like extensions or addons but these are well done and it seems like they have staying power.
- ɐɥO ( @Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ) 20•25 days ago
Sway. Very customiseable and extremely snappy
- Nimrod ( @Nimrod@lemm.ee ) 4•25 days ago
Same.
I dont do much customization, but the endevorOS community edition has decent defaults.
Just working cleanly with tiling feels so good. You dont have to use the mouse to move all the windows around. But if you hold the super key, you can just drag windows around to make a perfect layout. But often than not, i just want 2 windows side by side, with no wasted space. Done.
- superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 15•25 days ago
Gnome. It just works out of the box and I can fly through it using the keyboard and touchpad without having to configure it first.
I’ve done the whole song and dance with tiling WMs, or going through all of KDE’s settings until it was perfect, but I just can’t be bothered anymore.- PureTryOut ( @PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social ) 4•24 days ago
You don’t have to configure KDE you know. You can just keep the defaults like you’re probably doing with GNOME.
- SavvyWolf ( @savvywolf@pawb.social ) English15•25 days ago
Cinnamon. Desktop environment peaked in the Windows XP/Gnome 2 days and everything else is just change for the shake of change. :C
My only annoyance is lack of Wayland support. Tried out cosmic, but it doesn’t have the Windows XP/Gnome 2 style window list.
Screenshot for anyone interested:
- Mx Phibb ( @MrPhibb@reddthat.com ) 2•25 days ago
Me too, and it sorta has Wayland support, but it’s not real good. I also like Cosmic, I think it has a good future ahead of it.
- SavvyWolf ( @savvywolf@pawb.social ) English1•25 days ago
I tried Cosmic and quite liked it. Just waiting for them to add a gnome 2 style window list widget with the window names.
i agree with wayland, but in cinnamon there is experimental wayland support.
- SavvyWolf ( @savvywolf@pawb.social ) English1•25 days ago
There is, but I use a hipster keyboard layout and they don’t support alternate keyboard layouts yet.
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- The Doctor ( @drwho@beehaw.org ) English1•25 days ago
Agreed.
- octopus_ink ( @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ) English14•25 days ago
Was a Gnome user until Gnome 3.
Since Plasma 5, I use KDE Plasma.
I’m just going to share my unvarnished opinions here, I clearly understand that Gnome users feel differently, and that’s okay.
- Gnome 3 performance was objectively worse on every bit of hardware I tried than Plasma. (Unfortunately I had functional gripes with Plasma 4 so couldn’t use it.)
- The years of faffing about I had trying to be happy with Gnome 3 and trying to use other alternatives until Plasma 5 was ready pretty much convinced me of this:
- Gnome devs care more about achieving their vision of how a desktop should be used than they do about accommodating users who might feel differently. This is my perception, and it’s a deeply held opinion. No matter how strongly you feel I’m wrong, you aren’t going to change my mind. You can come at me if you want, but it’s going to bear no fruit.
- KDE devs have a vision, but place nearly equal importance on ensuring their users can make different choices if they choose. If this isn’t true, they do a damn good job of pretending it is, and that’s good enough for me. 🙂
- I’m unhappy with the degree to which it appears the Gnome team has actively worked against the ability for users to easily customize, and with various feature removals that at this point are so far in my past that I probably don’t remember the specific things that pissed me off, but I remember their explanations for feature removals being salt in an open wound every last time I cared enough to investigate their stated reasons.
Plasma 6 does everything I want the way I want. I have loaded it (and Plasma 5) on very low end and very high end hardware and found it performant and functional on both, consistently.
You’ll note I don’t claim it to be the best. There are folks out there for whom the Gnome vision happens to be how they like to work, or who aren’t bothered by whatever hoops you have to jump through currently to customize a Gnome environment, and I’m sincerely happy for those people. For them, Gnome is the best.
There are lots of other DEs and of course tiling WMs exist, but it takes me no time at all to have a fresh plasma install working the way I want my computer to work and looking the way I want it to look, and thus I literally have zero complaints. So for the past few years I haven’t even looked at any alternatives. If there’s ever a time that I don’t find the desktop product itself, and the KDE development team’s approach to desktop development, to be absolutely perfect fits for me, I’ll look elsewhere - but honestly probably not at Gnome.
You can try something like budgie,mate and cinnamon if you rlly want gnome done right.
- scriptGoober ( @scriptGoober@linux.community ) English1•25 days ago
i use zorin os’s gnome with forge, once cosmic comes out ill switch to that
- scriptGoober ( @scriptGoober@linux.community ) English2•25 days ago
whoops accidentally replied to a comment
- youmaynotknow ( @jjlinux@lemmy.ml ) 11•25 days ago
Gnome, be it PC or Laptop. It just remains out of my way with it’s minimalism. Tried KDE for a while, and I seriously can’t stand it, personally.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 11•25 days ago
xfce4. Stable as hell. X11. Can move windows around using just some keypresses.
- N0x0n ( @N0x0n@lemmy.ml ) 3•25 days ago
XFCE4 ! Stable, simple and EndeavourOS’ design is top notch !
However there are some glitches from time to time. Nothing to serious but when I use Lutris + Wine my desktop bar does some wired shit.
Also when coming back from sleep I have to “pkill xfce4-session”. Though I’m not totally sure it’s an xfce issue…this could also be Nvidia or X11 related… Didn’t dived to deep.
- Clocks [They/Them] ( @doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml ) 11•25 days ago
GNOME
- Luna ( @2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id ) English10•24 days ago
Gnome. I actually started with KDE. It’s a good DE, but it’s got so many options that I had choice fatigue. I constantly tweaked my taskbar instead of focusing on what I wanted to do. And it was easy to get it to a “looks broken” state
When I tried Gnome, I fell in love with it. I love the unique workflow, lack of distractions, the modern adwaita design, etc. Everything felt so polished
That being said, I don’t like how Gnome devs seemingly can’t agree on anything with other desktop environments. And I don’t like how they refuse to support server-side window decorations. Like, I agree with them that CSD are better than SSD, but it would be reasonable to support SSD for toolkits that haven’t/don’t want to implement CSD themselves, right?
I’m excited for Cosmic. It looks like it combines the best of Gnome and KDE, and the devs don’t have the “my way or the highway” mindset
- shekau ( @shekau@lemmy.today ) 3•24 days ago
I don’t like how Gnome devs seemingly can’t agree on anything with other desktop environments
Yeah, especially how they dont include minimize and maximize window buttons by default, that’s incomprehensible LOL
- gnuhaut ( @gnuhaut@lemmy.ml ) 3•24 days ago
I’m not a Gnome user but I stopped minimizing my windows years ago. Don’t need that if you (a) don’t have icons on your desktop and (b) move your windows over to another workspace when stuff gets crowded.
- pinkystew ( @pinkystew@reddthat.com ) English2•24 days ago
That’s like saying I don’t need to clean my room if I can just shove everything into the closet
- Gebruikersnaam ( @Gebruikersnaam@lemmy.ml ) 1•23 days ago
Minimizing applications feels like a Windows workflow because it doesn’t have decent workspaces like most Linux DEs. I never feel the need to minimize a window on Linux because I can arrange everything nicely in workspaces.
I found some negative press about cosmic which can be valid or not.
https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-on-cosmic- bitcrafter ( @bitcrafter@programming.dev ) 5•24 days ago
Repeating my other reply verbatim as you just did the same:
First, to be clear, this isn’t so much “press” as a blog entry. Second, there are only so many mentions of “rust cultists” and “my rust” I can read in a blog before losing interest.
- Luna ( @2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id ) English3•24 days ago
I’ve seen that blog post. Tbh Vaxry is kinda unhinged. I think he cares about Cosmic being written in Rust more than the “rust cultists” themselves :P
Oh, I didn’t know that I randomly found this blog.post.
- monovergent 🏁 ( @monovergent@lemmy.ml ) 9•25 days ago
XFCE4. It’s intuitive and predictable without sacrificing the ability to customize it exactly the way I want (with Chicago95 ofc). The built-in panel widgets are nothing short of amazing: battery, CPU, RAM, network, and disk monitors with labels toggled off to save space and a clock with only what I need on one line:
MM/DD HH:mm:ss
Enough features so that it “just works” (no nitpicking through config files), especially on laptops, without being bloated in any way. Bonus of its lightweight nature is that I can keep my Debian/XFCE setup consistent across all of my machines, both old and new.
Can’t wait for the finished xfwm4 port to wayland so I don’t have to sacrifice some security running X11 and so I can do fractional scaling on hidpi machines.
- Mx. Sky Barnes ( @skybarnes@discuss.online ) 9•24 days ago
KDE all the way, it’s incredible especially since 6
- flying_sheep ( @flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ) 2•24 days ago
It’s been great almost since I started using it.
I started using it exactly when 4.0 came out, because that’s when I started using Linux and I thought learning 3 didn’t make sense. But 4 only got stable around 4.4 I think. The problem was that 4.0 wasn’t intended to be for end users yet, but distributions didn’t realize that and packaged it right away.
KDE didn’t repeat that mistake. 5.0 was almost completely smooth sailing (some applications took a long time to port and looked ugly, that’s it), and 6.0 was completely seamless.
- memphis ( @memphis@sopuli.xyz ) 8•25 days ago
Gaming PC: GNOME (it works fine and I don’t care about much else there)
Laptop: dwl (dwm for Wayland) and suckless tools. Ultra lightweight and comfy for browsing and watching videos. Usually at the same time.
- icogniito ( @icogniito@lemmy.zip ) English8•25 days ago
I dont use a DE, I use a WM.
Semantics aside I’m on Hyprland, been using it for 6 months now and absolutely love it
- Eugenia ( @eugenia@lemmy.ml ) English7•25 days ago
Depends on the computer I run. On fast computers (more than 5,000 passmark cpu points), i use gnome on whatever distro. On mid-speed computers (1000 to 5000 points), I use linux mint with cinnamon. On very old computers (400-1000), I use debian with XFce.
- FrameXX ( @FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•23 days ago
I actually found Cinnamon to be more resource intensive than Gnome on most computers.
- Eugenia ( @eugenia@lemmy.ml ) English1•23 days ago
Not my experience here, especially if extensions are used on gnome, but I hear you. I find xfce to be lightest. Sure, there are other more light wms, but they’re not modern and suitable for daily use.