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If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it's Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)...etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.

Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the "Flagship Manjaro version". I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.

After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.

What about you guys?

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[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I use XFCE. If their Wayland support isn't ready when openSUSE Tumbleweed eliminates support for x11, I'm not sure what I'll go to.

[–] Vopyr@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

openSUSE Tumbleweed eliminates support for x11

Wait, what?

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At some point, probably after Fedora stops supporting x11, openSUSE plans to follow suit, and it will no longer be available in the repos. There's no firm date for when this will occur, though. I read about it on the official forum.

[–] Vopyr@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sad

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[–] Vegetvs@feddit.org 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm a long time supporter of Xfce, but I have to say Cinnamon these days. It's light on resources while being feature rich. Also it's the default on Mint and it just works.

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[–] AugustWest@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

KDE. Been upgrading the same environment for 5 years just keeps getting better.

I started around maybe KDE 3?

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Was on KDE 2, KDE 3 was absolutely incredible, ran it on Mac when it was supported on xquartz.

4 was a mess, but got better, 5 & 6 are fine, but it's overall far better than any other DE, it's just so customizable, the only other thing that comes close is xmonad or something.

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[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Desktop environment? Who needs a desktop environment?

[–] HotCoffee@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Bro watches videos through ASCII conversion in the cli😭

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

mpv for the win

but if you really want your ASCII conversion: mpv --vo=caca or mpv --vo=tct

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[–] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think in going to switch from XFCE to KDE just because the XFCE merit of using the least amount of the resources is no longer a reality. I miss LXDE

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

any computer I need to be stable enough for work/school: KDE

any computer whose primary purpose is for goofing off and gaming: LXQt (and I will spend the entire time configuring LXQt instead of gaming...)

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why not use steam or arch if it's just fucking around? Arch you can at least configure easily.

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[–] JakobFel@retrolemmy.com -2 points 3 months ago

Probably Plasma because it's familiar and you're able to customize it extensively over time.

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