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 so yh idk if these happened to anybody)
KDE Plasma on all my computers and also as desktop mode on Steam Deck. because it supports the latest technologies especially when it comes to graphics (HDR, VRR) also has best support for Wayland and multi-monitors. It looks great out of the box and it has a lot of features out of the box and I do not need to battle with adding some extensions that break with almost every update. KDE Plasma is also the most flexible desktop and I can set the workflow really to fit my desires and I can actually set many options and settings. And despite all these built-in features and configurability it still uses very few system resources. Oh and the KDE community is one of the most welcoming I have met in FOSS world, and they listen to their users instead of the our way or the high way mentality I have so often encountered in GNOME for example. So yeah TLDR KDE Plasma is the one I like the most of all in the industry, even when compared to proprietary closed alternatives.
Gnome. It just works out of the box and I can fly through it using the keyboard and touchpad without having to configure it first.
I’ve done the whole song and dance with tiling WMs, or going through all of KDE’s settings until it was perfect, but I just can’t be bothered anymore.I recently made a new linux install (to replace my constantly breaking, likely due to my own doing Manjaro install). I went with Cinnamon initially, but in order to try out Wayland, I moved to KDE plasma.
I’m on NVidia, with two different resolution screens. Which causes occasional problems. But overall it’s fine.
kde plasma, it’s fast, it’s pretty, it’s handy, it has all the keyboard shortcuts.
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.
Currently, Plasma. But I have ADHD a bit, so I’ve gone back and forth between that and Gnome mostly. I do like Cinnamon and I really want to spend time with Xfce and maybe others just to see what feels most comfortable right now. I’m trying to go for keyboard comfort these days, so we’ll see where I land at some point!
KDE Plasma
It was what came on the steam deck lol
GNOME. Eagerly waiting for cosmic.
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
I think that’s what popos comes with, never looked into what the differences are between them or why one would want to switch
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.
Same. Gnome currently but will certainly be trying Cosmic
At the moment, my main machine is on KDE because it has very good Wayland support and isn’t Gnome. I prefer Cinnamon
Budgie, because I like the way it looks.
Hyprland on my desktop
GNOME on my laptop
Xfce… Because I donno, been using it for many years
Same because it works really well over VNC. It feels almost like I’m actually on a local machine.
Ngl I like xfce because its Snappy, even on modern pcs.
Always ran xfce on my old used thinkpads!
Xfce is light and crisp! Looks great and works well with my myriad low-end computers 🐁
Am I the only one on here using Budgie. I just feel more comfortable with the workflow using Budgie.
That’s what I’d be using too. But it felt too incomplete and buggy. It’s not there yet, but it’s very promising.
i was also considering using budgie, but i dont like how inconsistent design, like parts of the desktop is light even tho dark mode is on and theming is split into another app.
KDE Plasma because it’s the one I like. If it disappeared tomorrow, I’d use Xfce.
Xfce. Partly because I’ve used it for a long time, but mostly because it does what I need it to do and little else.
Cinnamon. Desktop environment peaked in the Windows XP/Gnome 2 days and everything else is just change for the shake of change. :C
My only annoyance is lack of Wayland support. Tried out cosmic, but it doesn’t have the Windows XP/Gnome 2 style window list.
Screenshot for anyone interested:
i agree with wayland, but in cinnamon there is experimental wayland support.
