Spent lots of time with Gnome 2.

In Dec 2024 I got hooked in Hyprland on Arch and have a cool rice for it. But I’ve tried KDE on desktop now with Parrot OS since Plasma is popular. Still need to find some cool dot files or rice it myself.

I’ve noticed SwayFX getting lots of love lately. I might use that as an option with Plasma but am afraid of conflicts. I’m excited about it since Linux has now officially replaced windows on my gaming rig, which is the very last MS computer left in my house.

  • coltn@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    i am using KWM with river. I really like KWM, but I am tired with how rapidly the config is changing and needs to be updated to compile KWM updates. I’m thinking of switching to ZRWM since using CLI commands to config seem more stable than writing source code that needs to compile. The only thing I’m not sure about with ZRWM is I use monocle and deck layouts the most with KWM–and I’m not sure if ZRWM supports monocle.

    If I don’t get to a comfy place where my WM just exists and doesn’t need to be updated, I may move to DWL.

    I’ve used sway, hyprland, dwm, niri, mangowc, river-classic and now river with KWM. I’d say dwm and KWM are my favorite, but river-classic was up there (I just didn’t have enough layouts set up).

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    3·
    12 hours ago

    Cinnamon. Desktop UI peaked in the Gnome 2/Windows XP era and anything after that is bloat for the sake of bloat.

    Might try kde plasma though, if I can make it behave the same.

  • MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    13 hours ago

    KDE on Arch, aesthetically pleasing and mostly functional out of the box. There are some startup quirks, but that’s likely due to my LUKS setup which I will change with the next re-install. Already tried to fix multiple times, it’s too much of a hassle to keep trying to fix an <5 minutes per day issue.

    • sakphul@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      12 hours ago

      I would almost agree to this response. But there is one single Extension that I think is crucial: Appindicator. Without this things like Nextcloud or Synology Drive cannot be used propperly.

      I was leaning to also include copyous. But it is not absolutely mandatory.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 days ago

    KDE Plasma. It’s the most feature rich “just works” DE there is. GNOME doesn’t even have fucking maximize and minimize buttons by default without adding them via GNOME Tweaks.

    I used to be a Cinnamon/Linux Mint lover, but their slow implementation of Wayland, Window Scaling, and certain other annoyances like their split NetworkManager GUI between GNOME’s UI and the native NetworkManager UI made me switch.