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Do you prefer a Desktop Environment or Window Manager? Which one, and why?

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seungjin

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

Window Manager. Which one?: LeftWM. Why? More flexble

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It's FOSS

in reply to seungjin 2 weeks ago

@seungjin Nice

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RogueHashrate

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

I generally go for a desktop environment, I just like the versatility. I completely understand the appeal of window managers though and when I've used them in the past I was quite impressed even.

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i use KDE, and i prefer using a desktop environment. a DE has everything already preconfigured, so that it's usable right out of the box. window managers need to configured right after installation since they don't have stuff like taskbars, and sometimes they don't even have default shortcuts except for the terminal.

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Wah+

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

Cinnamon (DE) on one PC, Hyprland (WM) on another because yes.

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Patrick

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

Using gnome and paperwm. Tried to set up other WMs, but were too hacky for my attention-span. I just want the windows in order, thats all.

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Helga Secures All the Things

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

DE. Cinnamon. Nice coherent user experience, bit of eye candy and all the tools I need without unnecessary bells and whistles.

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Joel Takvorian

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

gnome (vanilla), by intentional lazyness. It's the least effort path, it's the most tested on my distro, minimizing the risk of bad surprise during upgrades. While I had to get acostumated to its UX at the beginning (years ago), I now feel productive since then, and ended up enjoying it, though without comparing with others.

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Nanook

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

@It's FOSS Yes. I use Mate with the Marco window manager. I wish Compiz
would work properly because it's got a lot of cool features but it doesn't.

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Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

KDE. Nothing else compares.

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Nkululeko

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

DE, it gets out of my.

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in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

DE, because usually is pretty out of the box. I'll never get the eye candy as anything like GNOME DE with some extensions. Speaking of... which is your fav DE for eye candy? (if resources were not a problem)

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Total Sonic Media

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

- DE, usually Gnome 4x with a bunch of extensions (such as Arc Menu & DesktopCube) added, if its on a nicely spec'd system - or Budgie, XFCE, Lomiri or Phosh once in a while, on less powerful devices, as well.

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Dave

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

KDE or xfce, because I'm too lazy to build up my own DE

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Karsten Johansson

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

I use whatever can give me a web browser and a bunch of terminal emulators placed in tidy places around my screens. Background images are nice, but I quite often cover them up with windows containing said browser and clis. Outside of that, it doesn't matter too much.

I used to joke that the best thing about guis is the tidy placement of lots of tuis.

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Nanook

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@Karsten Johansson @It's FOSS I prefer a pulldown menu to the mess that KDE gives and I prefer the older style Mate menu, though by default now it ships with the same menu as Gnome, it is easy to remove that menu and put the classic menu back up. I use the Marco built in Window manager both because it works locally but also plays well with x2go, some of the others do not.I make use of virtual desktops, so an interface that makes it easy to switch between them is convenient. Mate works well in this respect. I just hit control+alt and then use the left or right arrows to move up or down. I have 16 work stations configured but usually am only using five or six, but there have been times when I've had all 16 in play.

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BIGBEASTISHANK

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

I love both for different purpose, for laptop i would prefer DE gnome but for desktops i would prefer WM. Me personally use WM Bspwm

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Bawons Child

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

For the longest I used xfce on latest Debian stable. But for some reason the Bluetooth was not showing up nor was the user credential changer. So I switched back to gnome. I love xfce for how light weight it is. I even ran it on a beefy setup 8cors 32gb of ram etc

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Nanook

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

@It's FOSS At one time I had a dell with 4GB of RAM and two cores, then a light desktop was important. Presently I am using an i7-9700k with 96gb of RAM and nvme, so not so much. But x2go doesn't work well or at all with accelerated graphics so some things are still best avoided if I am remoting in to one of my servers.

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Axel Werner

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

Look at you young whippersnappers, with all your new fangled gizmos. Real men just need a #teletype and paper tape to do the work. No fancy shmancy #GUI. 🤡 no really. Isn't a windows manager a component of a desktop environment ?! #i_am_confusion !!!

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fab:log

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

In my understanding a WM is part of a DE, isn't it?
I use mutter on Gnome on Fedora, btw.

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Nanook

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

@It's FOSS I used to use a model 35-KSR at the local telephone company to install software updates into #1ESS machines or to add hardware in preparation for a growth job. Such fun.

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ABSURD

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

I prefer Wayland compositors, I Recently switched to niri and I love it.

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Nanook

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@ABSURD @It's FOSS Since I sometimes display X-apps remotely over the network as opposed to using an entire remote desktop with X2go, and since also I have Intel graphics which work with the kernel X-server, I don't use Wayland for both reasons. I am hopeful that either some day Wayland on Wires will reach a mature state where it actually works, or XLibre provides an efficient interface that works with gamers and then can have the best of both worlds, but for now that is the case.

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Mario

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

minimal vanilla gnome with some extensions. Because my computer needs to help me, not to stand in my way.

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Tecbs

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

KDE is the base environment on my main system.
For daily work in virtualized environments, I always use a window manager—typically DWM, and lately I've been really enjoying Niri.

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in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

Both 😆

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peter kleiweg 🇪🇺

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

Window manager. Fvwm for more than 30 years now. I tried, but haven't found anything else that serves my needs as well.

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porrima

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

xfce. Light and simple. Does the job.

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tpaau-17DB

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

I use Hyprland, for my workflow it's the most efficient one. I riced it in such a way that I don't even have to touch the mouse.

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themadhatter

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

window manager #dwm

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Back To Analog

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

Window Manager. I love Hyprland. While I do love KDE, it has so many unnecessary for me options and bulk, that is not usable for me, especially on older laptops. With a window manager you get flexibility and just the things that you need for your use case. I chose Hyprland because I wanted to stay ahead of the curve and use Wayland. Everything I need just works on Hyprland! I use Arch-based CachyOS.

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Proficiency

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GNOME; need things just to work, no time for customizing because I'm employed lol.

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It's FOSS

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@proficiency I get you 😅

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WG

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

I would say desktop environment. After doing some distro hopping to find what I like, it has turned out to be the desktop environment and software store / package manager that drive my decision on what I am using. I don't think that I have used a straight up window manager that did not come from a desktop environment (example: install icewm on a distro that did not come with it).

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cyberpunkrocker

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

WM. Always a WM. The last time I used a full-blown DE as such was in the KDE3 days.
My WM-of-choice is AwesomeWM. And as for why... In the early 2000s when I was learning HTML, I realized that my 'Dream Desktop' would be just like a HTML page - no fixed structures, everything user-scriptable. And AwesomeWM is the closest thing to that ideal I've seen so far.

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It's FOSS

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@cyberpunkrocker Sounds great! 🔥

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groovy

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

Gnome because it's simple and intuitive. And it looks great, although that's a matter of taste.

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Giona2

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

I want to use a WM so badly, but every time I try I get problems because of how minimalistic they are. Not having PolicyKit, for example (swaywm)

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olividir @linux

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

I found my happy place on desktop, I guess I will properly try window management properly when I get screen realestate to play with.

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zexu

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

WM, torn between Hyprland & RiverWM tho

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It's FOSS

in reply to zexu 2 weeks ago

@deepanshu188 Both of them are good picks, test them out and see which one suits you!

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diesch

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

@It's FOSS I have found Enlightenment.

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It's FOSS

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@diesch 🧘

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TFed 🍉🌻🚀

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

sway, idk where to press the exit

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pieterf

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

A WM. I use awesomewm. Because you choose yourself how your desktop should look and work. (I like to keep it clean and simple). And it is the perfect combination of ricing and minimalism.

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Z-Ray Entertainment

in reply to It's FOSS 2 weeks ago

I'm lazy af: The one which comes by default. But if I had to choose I'd throw a coin for either KDE or Gnome. Both very lovely and well crafted Desktop Environments and I do not want to favor one over the other. Therefore random it is.

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Sumerian

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Hyprland because it increases the user's speed and is also lightweight.

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