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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)

I've only tried a few of them.

For mint, I went with XFCE and Cinnamon.

For the lightweight Linux distros, I just went with whatever was bundled with them. None of them stood out, which is probably by design.

Tried KDE as well, and its customization options just blew me away. I always use it now for desktop installations.

Gnome, of course, on anything with a trackpad. I hate trackpads with a passion so I look for DEs that would make using them less painful.

Are we including WMs? I've only tried I3WM, Qtile, and (iirc) awesome, I'm awful with WMs so I can't really stay with them for long. My productivity takes a dive lol.

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

I added the post to include WMs as well, they slipped my mind for some reason when making the post.

What does Gnome do differently when it comes to trackpads?

I think I lasted a whole lot of 5 minutes when actually using i3, it made me feel way too stupid. Seeing people use it is impressive, actually using it is another story (to me).

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

it made me feel way too stupid

Glad I'm not the only one who felt that. In the end it just frustrated me so I never tried again. Lol.

For Gnome, like someone has said, it's the workflow. Imagine like Android on pc. Gestures, app drawer, etc. I'd go back to KDE in a flash if I weren't using a trackpad, but swiping/gestures on trackpad is just too convenient. The devs don't want it to be customized, afaik, so that part is tricky. Customization is extremely limited.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yea, you definitely aren't.

Ahhh I see, I never use those anywhere so I am not missing anything even though I use the trackpad quite a lot. Thank you for the answer!