Spent lots of time with Gnome 2.

In Dec 2024 I got hooked in Hyprland on Arch and have a cool rice for it. But I’ve tried KDE on desktop now with Parrot OS since Plasma is popular. Still need to find some cool dot files or rice it myself.

I’ve noticed SwayFX getting lots of love lately. I might use that as an option with Plasma but am afraid of conflicts. I’m excited about it since Linux has now officially replaced windows on my gaming rig, which is the very last MS computer left in my house.

  • Frosty@pawb.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    KDE Plasma all the way, on the desktop, the laptops and the two set top boxes.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    KDE Plasma. It’s the most feature rich “just works” DE there is. GNOME doesn’t even have fucking maximize and minimize buttons by default without adding them via GNOME Tweaks.

    I used to be a Cinnamon/Linux Mint lover, but their slow implementation of Wayland, Window Scaling, and certain other annoyances like their split NetworkManager GUI between GNOME’s UI and the native NetworkManager UI made me switch.

  • Don Antonio Magino@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    KDE Plasma, as it’s most Windows-like and it has lots of cool widgets to add to your desktop Windows 7-style.

    I’ve also tried Gnome, but I found it confusing and honestly a bit annoying. Not being able to properly minimise like I’m used to just really throws me off. I do think the visual style is well-designed, though.

    I’ve tried Cinnamon as well. I thought it looked a bit too cheap for my taste, at least by default on Mint.

  • ClipperDefiance@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I use KDE. I like how easy it is to customize pretty much everything. Like, if I want everything to be green, I can make everything green and no one can stop me.

  • Veraxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    KDE. I don’t even do much to customize it. I think it looks pretty good out of the box.

    • comrade_twisty@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The only thing I customize is to turn off the floating panel, I just can’t stand the small gap on the bottom and the sides. It just looks off to me.

      • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 months ago

        I’d like to compliment on it changing that when you open a full screen app. Yet, these tiny pixels look so little difference that it looks very much off to me indeed. And I’d prefer to have no dock at all. So I use Sway for myself. It’s that I interact with KDE sometimes.

  • Hund@feddit.nu
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    27 days ago

    I’ve been using i3 for about a decade now. Wmfs for about 5 years before that.

    PS. Don’t use racist lingo please.

    • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      23 days ago

      Where is racist lingo? Note that the definition of offense changes with different countries. I might have never heard about what you’re referring to.

      • Hund@feddit.nu
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        22 days ago

        No worries!

        Rice, ricing, ricer, etc. It’s common racist lingo that’s been used for decades.

        It’s also a common term used (for customising your desktop) on Reddit. They literally borrowed the word due to it’s rasist meaning.

        However. This is not Reddit, and it would be nice if we could keep it more civil here, which is why I’m bringing it up. :)

  • meowcar420@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    i grew up with gnome, switched to plasma because i used a steam deck as my main computer for a few years. im just so used to the workflow in plasma, and while i would really love to switch to hyprland, its just too big of a hassle to set it up and learn everything. luckily i found out about krohnkite, so i can at least have some tiling in plasma, but not in the way hyprland does it. i would love it, if it split the focused window