I have tried out Gnome, KDE, Lxqt and Xfce on a regular desktop and all of them feel nice. I haven’t tried many DE’s on a laptop.
Are there any particular DE’s you like on a laptop, because of things like power consumption and efficiency that would not come normally into consideration for a desktop?
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I started with ubuntu then mint on desktop and then vm. I hated Gnome in those days, prefering KDE or XFCE (even i3wm). Now that my laptop is on EOS, I tried Gnome again and it’s much better for use with a trackpad. So yeah, different DEs for different tastes/uses/systems.
Thank you.
If you haven’t tried them, I recommend giving them a try. They all have something to offer.
I have tried them on desktop and in most cases, I did not have any serious issue with them. I was thinking which one would be better optimised for laptops.
KDE handled things very well
I’m on KDE now. It’s good. Was thinking whether there are any DE’s that are specifically recommended for laptops, for efficiency or ease of use.
I’m a KDE guy and use it myself on my notebook, but GNOME with its multitouch gestures and polished (if a little inflexible) workflow is also an excellent fit.
XFCE minimal but good looking. You could also go for MATE or Cinnamon…
GNOME
Yeah i use gnome on my laptop, desktop, and tablet. Works great on all, but thrives on the tablet and laptop
I’m the type of person who gets tired of a DE after using it for too long, so I’m using Budgie right now and I really like it. However XFCE is pretty nice, too, it’s what I used to use.
From what I hear, budgie may not get further updates.
xfce since it came default with eos and its pretty lightweight
GNOME, despite the critiques it receives it’s the most polished one and the one that gives me less problems
I have nothing against gnome and it’s defiantly the most polished, but in the same time it has alot of small inconveniences that are only fixable with plugins and messing around with the settings.
For my workflow kde is usable out of the box with almost no configurations.
Cinnamon for me, It looks like old Windows
Cinnamon is great. I just did a fresh install of Mint on an older laptop.
I recently switched from i3 to hyprland and quite like it. Wayland still has some issues, but the better scaling makes it worth it.
I’ve used Sway for a few years but Hyprland is certainly on my list.
Also a fan of hyprland, will be ovewriting my arch+kde desktop with my laptop’s nixos+hyprland flake this week. Wayland definitely has some early adoption pains but the tearing reduction alone makes it worth it.
Gnome hands down had the best laptop experience. If you follow the intended workflow of using tiled windows and many workspaces you can hey very far with just the laptop screen.
However it does translate well to a desktop for the times you are docked.
The only problem is that it only supports half tiling, which is quite annoying if you are using large screens.
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I just use Window Maker. It got an update recently. Notifications work out of the box, Firefox and Chrome have never created multiple icons, not seen that.
It is not a Wayland compositor which is fine as I only use X11 and probably won’t use Wayland for many more years till it’s mature enough. I went back to Window Maker several years ago and it’s working just fine. With
wmsystemtrayI have a system tray so things like NetworkMakager and hplip and blue-z all can latch on and display their icons, I don’t need a desktop environment now!YMMV regarding the HIDPI thing, I have never had a monitor with such a narrow pixel pitch to need anything like that.
I recently switched to xfce.
I used KDE exclusively since 2004. That’s a very long time but KDE Plasma in combination with nvidia got worse, what felt like, every single day over the last years, so it finally came to the point where I had no choice to look for something that works better.
Super happy with xfce after I set it up almost exactly like my KDE setup. Sure there are some thing that are not as “well rounded” than some of the excellent Plasma features but over all it works great!xfce is the least buggy de I ever used, never seen anything not work as intended on it even on very low en hardware
That was the main reason I choose it over the others. Having a stable DE that doesn’t change much which works great with nvidia and xorg.
I love Sway and been using it for a year or so. Never looked back
@aMalayali KDE - desktop or laptop.
I like Enlightenment. It uses 400 MB of RAM on my old laptop/
