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What desktop enviroment do you use and why? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Mwa@thelemmy.club to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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)

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[–] davi@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I use KDE plasma 5 atm and i planning on an upgrade to 6 soon; but it's my daily driver so I've dragging my feet on it for a couple weeks now.

What happened when tried troubleshooting those problems you had?

[–] peppers_ghost@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Gnome on laptop, KDE on desktop. I go back and forth with those DEs.

[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I'm currently using Cinnamon because I thought it would be better than Xfce. While I do think that Cinnamon looks better, there were some minor things that I preferred with Xfce. I want to try Mate and maybe some of the other DEs if I can find a good distro that has them but I may go back to Xfce the next time I install Linux Mint.

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[–] TheV2@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use herbstluftwm. The configuration is straightforward and it fits my minimal needs.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What broke with tracker3 ?

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Idk,it would not run anymore.

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[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

KDE at home "gaming" desktop, but would love to move away from it, for various bugs and non-working configurations. At work and home laptop I am using WMs, riverwm / i3.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 month ago

Same, I wanna move to another desktop.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

GNOME because it's the only good option that looks modern and has proper development. Excuses of KDE fanboys that GNOME team makes weird decisions are not accepted.

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[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gnome and Cosmic. Gnome 'cause of simplicity and Cosmic because of Rust.

!I am a Rust programmer and I love this language!<

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club -2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I found some negative press about cosmic which can be valid or not.
https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-on-cosmic

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