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What are your favorite DE's that you use on a laptop? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have tried out Gnome, KDE, Lxqt and Xfce on a regular desktop and all of them feel nice. I haven't tried many DE's on a laptop.
Are there any particular DE's you like on a laptop, because of things like power consumption and efficiency that would not come normally into consideration for a desktop?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

i3
the less I need a mouse on a laptop, the better

edit: ok, you specifically asked for a full fledged DE and not just a WM. well, I picked what I needed and with Manjaro i3 as base, I had a nice place to start

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

full fledged de with tiling ?

spoiler

kde with Krohnkite

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i3 just feels much faster. can't change back to anything more bloated at the moment. It wrecks my nerves waiting for a window to open on other DEs/WMs - although it's often not much of a difference.

I'm very happy with my current setup. would like to try sway, but I think Wayland/sway isn't completely there yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

haha I was being half serious here, as fun as I have with kronkite on my space heater, its is a layer of bloat on top of a mountain of bloat so not what you want in op's case