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)

    • Katzenmann@feddit.orgEnglish
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      6 months 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@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        6 months 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

    • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
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      6 months 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

    • Ham Strokers Ejacula@reddthat.comEnglish
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      6 months 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.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Using it on my latest install. Not bad. I mostly picked it for the visual aspects but I’m in the fence about it’s functionality. It feels like it takes more clicks than it should to open stuff.

      • Telorand@reddthat.com
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        6 months ago

        Perhaps, but it’s also good to remember that it’s still in Alpha. That could still change. I feel like it would be hard to give a good review before it’s at least RC1

  • nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
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    6 months ago

    I use Mate. When I first started using a Desktop in addition to terminals, it was with Redhat 6.1, Redhat came with Gnome-2, I got used to it. I didn’t like the changes made in Gnome-3, so I switched to Mate which retained, or at least had the option to be configured to look as I was used to it, save for more refined graphics. It also works well remotely so that’s another reason I use it as much of my work involves remote acess.

  • Captain Baka@feddit.org
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    6 months ago

    I used Enlightment for the last few years, but switched this year to XFCE because i like the look more. I’m using old-as-fuck-hardware and both DEs work good on my machines.

      • poweruser@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I first used XFCE on my old 700mhz processor Thinkpad back in the day. Back then, Gnome and especially KDE were known to use excessive resources on low-end machines so XFCE was preferred.

        However, I actually quite liked the DE so I just switched to it permanently, even on my more capable machines. I’ve been running XFCE for around 15 years 😆

  • fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    Nobody uses cinnamon? Honestly - I really like using cinnamon with Debian. I heard that they promised not to fuck with the UI for no reason unlike… everyone! @Mwa Cinnamon is a fairly nice, easy to use desktop - I don’t really care which is better, but if they change it, you have to re-learn it. Top tip for UI design - don’t think that your users want to re-learn how to interact with your UI - they might go outside, or elsewhere.

  • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    kde plasma, it’s fast, it’s pretty, it’s handy, it has all the keyboard shortcuts.

    • Mwas alt (prob)@thelemmy.clubOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      The only desktop that has a clipboard feature(superkey + v) I love, most of the desktop I see don’t have it and the clipboard show up as a system tray app.

    • Nimrod@lemm.ee
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      6 months 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.

  • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk
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    6 months ago

    Gnome on one machine, LXDE on another.

    I use Gnome on my main laptop, a Thinkpad P50. I bought it with a dock thinking I’d use it at my desk and on the sofa but it’s a bit of a beast so that stays on my desk and I use an L440 with LXDE on the sofa. Considering trying LCARS on the sofa machine.

  • Matty@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    XFCE as I like the look of the classic Windows layout. Might eventually try out KDE for Wayland support but there’s something about the simplicity of XFCE which I love.

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I really love both esp after KDE 6. But I use Gnome, KDE treats multiple monitors as separate entities I find the bugs distracting and there’s only so much customisation I need. I slap open bar on and get to work.

  • memphis@sopuli.xyz
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    6 months 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.