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Favourite DE (self.linux)

submitted 7 months ago by Tekkip20 to c/[email protected]

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My favourite DE has got to be Cinnamon, as much as I like KDE and XFCE, I prefer the simplicity of cinnamon where as in KDE has a bit too much of everything in the customization scene and XFCE I find a little tricky to get tiling working right.

Cinnamon to me is perfect as I easily transferred from Win 10 to Mint and soon Manjaro Cinnamon Edition.

What is your favourite DE and why? Tiling WM DE's can be counted as well seeing as they have nifty navigation features.

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

Having successfully convinced me to move away from Xfce after GNOME 2 was deprecated, my main DE has been MATE for such a long time. However, I am being wooed by KDE Plasma lately. I remember running Plasma 5.26 on Slackware 15-current and was blown away at how snappy it was on an old Dell Latitude E6410 with a 1st-gen Core i5 520M! I can only imagine how nice Plasma 6.x is in comparison.

MATE has also been stable for me on the BSD side, running it on OpenBSD and FreeBSD, but Plasma might woo me away on there as well, especially once Plasma 6 is available on OpenBSD 7.6.

I also prefer to run Fluxbox on much less powerful hardware, regardless of the OS it's on.

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

I like Sway, it obviously needs a bit of configuration to be useful, but that's partly what I like about it, and using a distro like Guix (Nix configured with Lisp) makes it easy to have the same settings on multiple PCs. Otherwise I like GNOME; it's well supported and has many good apps. Touch/touchpad support is really good as well.

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

Cinnamon is sold and easy to use. I use gnome but if I had to choose something else I would go cinnamon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Whoa, but the comma splice.

Are we doing popularity contests here?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Moksha DE is also good one. Budgie feels more bettter for new users than Cinnamon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Would openbox count?

80% of the full UI of a proper de but with 30% impact on really slow hardware.

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