Spent lots of time with Gnome 2.

In Dec 2024 I got hooked in Hyprland on Arch and have a cool rice for it. But I’ve tried KDE on desktop now with Parrot OS since Plasma is popular. Still need to find some cool dot files or rice it myself.

I’ve noticed SwayFX getting lots of love lately. I might use that as an option with Plasma but am afraid of conflicts. I’m excited about it since Linux has now officially replaced windows on my gaming rig, which is the very last MS computer left in my house.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 hours ago

    KDE Plasma. It’s the most feature rich “just works” DE there is. GNOME doesn’t even have fucking maximize and minimize buttons by default without adding them via GNOME Tweaks.

    I used to be a Cinnamon/Linux Mint lover, but their slow implementation of Wayland, Window Scaling, and certain other annoyances like their split NetworkManager GUI between GNOME’s UI and the native NetworkManager UI made me switch.

  • dewritoninja@pawb.social
    2·
    4 hours ago

    Currently using gnome with lots of extensions. Ive tried many DEs but gnome always feels like home. I also like kde a lot but there something about qt that feels so amateur and unpolished, and I can’t get steam to run on kde out of the box, with gnome it just works. Also the times I’ve used kde I always end up replicating the gnome layout so I just decided to stick with gnome in the long run

  • Frosty@pawb.socialEnglish
    11·
    7 hours ago

    KDE Plasma all the way, on the desktop, the laptops and the two set top boxes.

  • nsh@lemmy.nz
    3·
    6 hours ago

    Sway and Gnome

    The latter is mostly for other family members. But I like both.

  • bluesquid0741b@aussie.zoneEnglish
    3·
    7 hours ago

    Cosmic.

    Openbox was my favourite, but there’s not a really good Wayland alternative yet so I’ve stuck with KDE for years.

    I wanted to try Cosmic so I went to the source with popos and it’s really a good time. I haven’t used a Deb/Ubuntu base since the Crunchbang days but this is good and it seems there is a Cosmic update pushed through every week.

  • fatur.new@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    7 hours ago

    Cinnamon. It’s like a combination of kde and gnome.

    I am sorry if my English is bad.

  • netvor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    11 hours ago

    i3

    With alacritty, qutebrowser, neovim and LibreWolf. I use my custom dmenu-based utilities for things like launching apps, locking (with slock), controlling (ie. postponing :D) redshift and music player and opening bookmarks, links and searches. Thunar is the most DE-like app I use but being comfortable with Bash i use Thunar just for certain tasks like organizing files like photos. (For quick text edits, I sometimes prefer Mousepad. For screenshots it’s slock+maim.)

    I don’t “rice”, I just set some color schemes years ago and use simple wallpaper (which I rarely see.) And keep everything as minimal and out of way as possible.

    (I don’t care about Wayland unless I’m somehow forced to. I mean, some of my utils depend on X11 for things like clipboard access but I suppose it could be fixed easily nowadays. However X11 works fine for me so if it ain’t broken…)