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    Which DE/WM do you prefer? (lemmy.world)
    submitted 7 months ago by Waffelson to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    I daily drive Window managers but occasionally I also check out Desktop environments. Here is my personal preference -

    DE

    1. XFCE
    2. KDE
    3. Cinnamon

    WM

    1. Hyprland
    2. BSPWM
    3. Openbox / Labwc
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    I have never known what the difference between DE and WM, well, I still don’t know really…

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    A DE tries to be a full operating environment, it has panels and configuration tools and (...) all as part of the package

    A WM only does window management, and other things need to be added separately. The line blurs a bit since most people who use WMs end up adding a lot of other stuff to them to the point it might as well be a DE, only it was built piecemeal.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

    So there is no DE with hyperland as WM? I want something like gnome with the forge extension but not es buggy 😂

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    None that I know of. Though you can build your own operating environment centered around Hyprland. Their wiki is pretty good and their config files are nice and simple to understand. I did that for a lark a few months back.

    .... The catch is that, y'know, it's a whole afternoon spent tinkering to get it right.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Well that seems promising 😃 only one day seems doable 🤟🏻🤣 I’ll try to add it to my gnome arch as second option

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

    YMMV of course. It took me an afternoon to get it to a point where it had the stuff I needed and was enjoyable to use.

    ... f'course I didn't stick with it, as I said in my toplevel post, turns out tiling WMs aren't for me.