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What's your favorite DE, and what does your workflow look like? (is.hardlywork.ing)

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After trying out Cosmic, Gnome,KDE Plasma, and Hyprland, I feel like plasma is the most usable for me coming from Windows. It solves the gripes I had about lack of customizability while still starting me off with a familiar homebar. I will be going back and forth with gnome for a while.

I really like gnome and the sliding desktops, and all the extensions seem to make it very customizable as well, but not directly like plasma, instead you mix and match (or make) extensions to get the look you want. (correct me if im wrong, I used it for a day)

Hyprland seems very nice for multitasking but the keyboard focus of the presets ive tried doesn't really appeal to me, I like being able to just use my mouse sometimes.

Cosmic, is definitely an alpha and im interested to see what it becomes, wont be using it now.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

dwm is neat

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I yearn for the day Debian gets proper DWL support

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (5 children)

didn’t realize debian does not have dwm support. been thinking about putting it on my deb based laptop bc it feels so nice on my desktop. what do you run?

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[–] otto 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Keep in mind that cosmic is still in an alpha build. It’s missing a lot of features and his buggy here are there. I’m sure it will be pretty awesome and once it releases it 1.0 version.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

i was impressed with cosmic when i gave it a spin here.. it has a lot of potential... just still very 'incomplete' currently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

KDE and I keep it mostly stock. I usually get a compact desktop pager widget and add a kwin plugin to dynamically add/remove virtual desktops.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I use emptty and herbsluft.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Not often I meet another herbsluft user in the wild! waves

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I like Cinnamon, stacked on the right (vertical bar) with the third party cinnamenu start menu. Simple, and it works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I keep hearing good things, ill try it out, when I first looked it up it didnt seem as customizable based off screenshots but im seeing posts about how its more customizable than gnome

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I have been liking river lately after switching to it from hyprland. River is much more similar to my previous one which was xmonad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

DWM

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Krunner on Meta And a lot of alt + tab

That's pretty much it 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Cinnamon. I feel like it's a nice middle ground between the minimalism of Gnome and the maximalism of KDE Plasma

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[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 3 days ago

Cinnamon is a long time favorite of mine; it has a certain practical mindedness that I like. Gnome irritates the absolute shit out of me and Cinnamon inherits just a little too much from Gnome. I'm using KDE on my main computer at the moment, which I still think is my second choice. Doesn't really help that my move to KDE also came with a move to Wayland, which killed a few tools I still miss.

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