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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] 1 points 1 year ago

Plasma. I have it configured to match my workflow.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I use Gnome on my Thinkpad. That machine has an i7 and 16gb of ram. Ok my tiny Chromebook I got Mate. Very lightweight and almost as many features as Gnome.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

@aMalayali I'm quite happy with Cinnamon in the moment but I know what you mean. If my daily work experience with Cinnamon would suffer, I would also go back to XFCE.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm really liking Budgie, can't wait for version 11 when they ditch the gnome libs/apps.

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