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What DE/WM do you use? Any you tried in the past and hated? (iusearchlinux.fyi)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Last week I was asking about when and why you started using Linux, thank you everyone who took their time to write an answer! It was interesting to read all of your guys stories and I was surprised just how far back some of them go.

Now I am curious about your guys DE/WMs. What do you use? What do you like/don't like about it? What have you tried? What is you go to? Any you absolutely can not stand the sight of? Any that you tried that disappointed you?

Once again no judgment, just curious about peoples experiences.

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

Ok, I will actually start this time.

I been basically just using Cinnamon for the past 8 years. Since I used it for so long it is super familiar with it, I know where to find anything I possibly need and I can set it up the way I like in about 2 minutes. So it is just very comfortable for me to use it. And why change it if it works right?

Other than that the only thing I really tried (as in I used for more than a few days) was KDE and I hated it which was very disappointing to me because I heard so many people liking it. I had a really hard and confusing time trying to set it up the exact way I wanted and got hit with a nasty bug when the search would just stop working day 2 or 3 of using it. Maybe I just hit a very bad timing when I did but I have no interest trying it again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm one of those that love KDE (provided the device can handle all the customization stuff I do there lol). I had the opposite experience - KDE was the easiest one to customize to my liking. Even easier than XFCE. Gnome, however, is an absolute PITA. Cinnamon is great, too.

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

I felt like KDE just had too many options because what I want is actually really really simple. I kinda gave up halfway through end went for "close enough" but I wasn't really happy with it. But it was mainly the bug made me give up and go back to Cinnamon.