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    Bell curve of Linux distributions (lemmy.world)
    submitted 1 year ago by mafbar to c/linuxmemes
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    I use Windows btw

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    [–] mafbar 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Looking at all of these, it does seem that KDE is probably the best. Oh I guess it depends on the user, but still.

    [–] LuckyLu 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I use GNOME when I’m on Linux. KDE has had this bug for years now which makes working with a home server more annoying, and despite having grown up with and still using Windows I find GNOME comfortable.

    There are other options too. Budgie is derived from GNOME and made to feel more Windows-like. It’s very pretty. Pantheon is probably somebody’s favourite although I personally despise it. And if you like having a gorgeous backdoor for the CCP, you can use DeepIn.

    And if you vow to never again touch grass, you can even switch to a TWM such as Worm or Awesome. You shouldn’t, but you can.

    [–] mafbar 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    With Linux, you kind of have to fumble your way around and pick some stuff for yourself, like the desktop environment. It also depends on what type of user you are, and what type of work you do. However, I do want to switch to a tiling window manager like Awesome or Sway though. It just seems much more efficient and less resource-intensive.

    [–] LuckyLu 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It’s definitely less resource-intensive, but that hardly matters on modern hardware unless you’re doing insanely fast computations and need every spare resource.

    As for more efficient, that heavily depends on what you’re doing. It’s mostly suited to programmers and maybe some writers, but if you’re looking to do graphic design, animation, anything like that… fuck no. Just no.

    [–] mafbar 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    That's true though, if I use any modern hardware, I'm not really going to suffer performance penalties whether I'm using GNOME or KDE as compared to LXQt or XFCE.

    I've actually never used a tiling window manager, so I don't really know how unsuitable it is for a creativity-based workflow like needing to design graphics or animation or video editing. Can you tell me why it's troublesome to use TWMs (or any WMs?) for that kind of work? This is just out of curiosity though, since I don't do that kind of work.

    [–] LuckyLu 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I have barely used them, so I’m not the best at explaining, but for me it boils down to a number of things.

    First, TWMs are meant to work with keyboard shortcuts more than with any mouse input. Easy for those to conflict with the shortcuts of your app.

    Second, compatibility might be an issue if your TWM doesn’t use a normal compositor. I don’t know how well something like Blender would render its UI on a TWM.

    Third would be that a lot of creative apps are not meant to be tiled by the system and have their own solutions for window management, which could conflict with the TWM.

    I’m sure there are more reasons. I can’t think of them just now.

    [–] mafbar 1 points 1 year ago

    That's persuasive! I'll stick with GNOME/KDE then. 😂