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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] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DE? My typewriter can't print GUIs and if it coud it's just bloat. /s
I don't really need DEs. A WM and at most a taskbar is all I need. But I use xfce on my main machine because I installed it when setting up the os and it doesn't annoy me with features I don't want, so I never bothered switching to something else.

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

Fixed the post the post. Completely slipped my mind to mention WMs as well, my bad :D

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

Thought you are gonna make a seperate post about WMs in the future.

I like floating WMs, although I don't dislike ~~stacked~~ tiled ones, it just feels a bit better to drag windows and stacked ones are not more efficient for me. As long as a WM can display multiple windows I could probably live with it. But I like dwm, because it has a built-in status bar, it's configurable and it's small. Goes without saying; I like minimal software. I used Openbox in the past, but dwm + dmenu have default key bindings I like a lot, so I don't bother setting up Openbox anymore.

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

I think these 2 can definitely be merged in one post since they are kinda related. I have plenty of other things I would like to make posts to ask about things(software/hardware/setup related) because its interesting to me to see how people do things differently and hopefully also learning new things along the way, but I don't wanna seem too nosy :/

Pardon my ignorance here, but what is the difference between a stacking and floating one? I get what a tiling and what a stacking one is, but I can't figure out the difference between stacking and floating one because when I look it up it just tells me its the same? Unless you mean stacking as the one I am thinking of a tiling?

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

I meant tiling oops. Stacking is floating.

I am glad you ask all these questions, beause it's interesting and otherwise I might have to ask. Don't worry, people don't have to answer and I for example don't mention things I don't want to say.

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

Ah ok, things make more sense now :D

Yea, that is fair. I will post a new one in a few days. If you have anything specifically you are curious about fell free to make a thread and ask the questions yourself too :)