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For me its KDE.

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[–] gkpy@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

sway + bemenu for building my own utilities

btw what distro are my fellow sway users on? i'm loving the control i get over what i install with gentoo

how is everyone interacting with audio, networking, bluetooth?

[–] JetpackJackson@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Arch for me; pulsemixer, iwctl, bluetoothctl

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

Hyprland + bemenu. Minimalistic, very little overhead, but still a pretty boi.

[–] pmarcilus@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

River, not a DE but close enough. I could configure it in fennel without much problem.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

KDE for my main and XFCE for my lower powered systems or VM's

[–] MartinXYZ@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

This is what I do too. I've been considering switching to XFCE everywhere, because why use more resources, when XFCE does the job insert The Office "why waste time say lot words ..."-gif

[–] TheMonkeyLord@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

XFCE, while it doesn't have all the fancy animations and such it is incredibly customizable while still being super light weight.

[–] WheelcharArtist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[–] Furycd001@fosstodon.org 1 points 2 years ago

@fugepe XFCE is the best in my opinion. It's lightweight, full customizable & easy to set up....

[–] kanzalibrary@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

is anyone used herbsluftwm for low powered CPU here?

[–] slowneedler@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I've used gnome for years, about a month ago I decided to give KDE a try on my old spare laptop. Two days later it was on my desktop and work laptop. I am loving KDE.

[–] zosu@vlemmy.net 1 points 2 years ago

For me it was Enlightenment DR16 (discontinued). you could make themes with shaped borders (transparent regions, buttons and titles anywhere, even overlapping into the window a bit), have it remember window positions, change border style for a window (e.g. drawer, so it can be collapsed sideways) and it would not steal focus. it had really good effects and features. I miss it a lot in Wayland. Check the web for some screenshots, if you want to be inspired.

[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

bspwm + sxhkd, for years. Based on the Manjaro config at first, today it's my own setup. Even convinced may family. The best!

[–] bnuser1@mastodon.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@fugepe I use Ubuntu but, is KDE easy to pick up? Just getting into Linux my self.

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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I usually use WindowMaker or FVWM but as a desktop environment... CDE

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

KDE if I have performance to spare. XFCE if I am running this in a container on my phone.

[–] NotGabe@mastodon.social 1 points 2 years ago

@fugepe I use a mostly vanilla Gnome, with the exception of the Blur My Shell and Vitals extensions

[–] NotGabe@mastodon.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@fugepe Wow, not a lot of replies are saying Gnome, but there's a lot more XFCE than I thought I'd see

[–] fugepe@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

XFCE? always that shit is fast and the memory management is better than KDE and Gnome

[–] Octorine@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

It may be a sort of shy Tory effect. People don't volunteer that they run Gnome because it's seen as the default mainstream option, but if someone uses xmonad, they're going to tell you about it.

[–] UnixWeeb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

A while back I was into KDE Plasma but for whatever reason had this bug that would cause my system to run at 100 percent at all times. When I looked into it, many stated it was a bug that related to how kde searches for stuff on the system. Dont remember much else but that had me look elsewhere.

Been on gnome for awhile now and havent had any issues.

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Vanilla Gnome Shell. I know it's heresy, but I've been using it since beta and I actually enjoy the work flow.

[–] maengooen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

i3 counts, right? I have always been a keyboard oriented user and a big part of what drove me from Windows is them breaking or changing the hotkeys I used regularly. To me it is the perfect "you have control, this is your device, it works and looks how you want." wm

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Um....none.

[–] Tsuki@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Mine is a combination of Sway + i3bar. Stick with it since I downlosded Pop!_OS

[–] DeadGemini@waveform.social 1 points 2 years ago

i3 on my laptop, gnome on my gaming rig (cuz wayland)

[–] xohshoo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

EXWM (Emacs X windows manager)

all it lacks is a good editor

(j/k, I've settled on Cosmic on Pop for the last few years, and now I'm so lazy, I barely update it)

[–] Spider89@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[–] blob42@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

dwm, I got too much used to "it just works" and never ever breaks afrer an update.

[–] vacuumflower@vlemmy.net 1 points 2 years ago
[–] ProfessorYakkington@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I am on pop is for my home desktop. I like the built in tiling manager. Ubuntu for work. Might give nix or kde a go next.

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I really like KDE, but I’ve been daily driving Gnome since version 40. Insanely polished and I really like the workflow of everything. I do wish they were faster in implementing stuff like VRR though.

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