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.
Been on i3wm for 3 4 years now I guess. Also work with sway on some systems.
you can actually see and use my config
I wish I could give multiple upvotes for both posting dots and using Codeberg rather than Github.
Looks good!
Haha thanks <3
Cinnamon. Desktop UI peaked in the Gnome 2/Windows XP era and anything after that is bloat for the sake of bloat.
Might try kde plasma though, if I can make it behave the same.
I loved Gnome 2. Used it way after Gnome 3 came out for work. I’m not sure something like Hyprland is bloat though. Some of this is really minimalist unless you add a ton of stuff.
I’m with you on Cinnamon, but I’m anxious for the Wayland support.
Stock GNOME. No extensions.
I would almost agree to this response. But there is one single Extension that I think is crucial: Appindicator. Without this things like Nextcloud or Synology Drive cannot be used propperly.
I was leaning to also include copyous. But it is not absolutely mandatory.
Xfce + labwc is best combo for now
Mate 👍
Used it for years back in 2012-2014. Was writing my Master’s thesis in LaTeX. Simple and absolutely no issues. It certainly wasn’t eye candy back then though.
KDE like a real grown up
KDE on Arch, aesthetically pleasing and mostly functional out of the box. There are some startup quirks, but that’s likely due to my LUKS setup which I will change with the next re-install. Already tried to fix multiple times, it’s too much of a hassle to keep trying to fix an <5 minutes per day issue.
Arch linux + niti + dms, amazing!
i am using KWM with river. I really like KWM, but I am tired with how rapidly the config is changing and needs to be updated to compile KWM updates. I’m thinking of switching to ZRWM since using CLI commands to config seem more stable than writing source code that needs to compile. The only thing I’m not sure about with ZRWM is I use monocle and deck layouts the most with KWM–and I’m not sure if ZRWM supports monocle.
If I don’t get to a comfy place where my WM just exists and doesn’t need to be updated, I may move to DWL.
I’ve used sway, hyprland, dwm, niri, mangowc, river-classic and now river with KWM. I’d say dwm and KWM are my favorite, but river-classic was up there (I just didn’t have enough layouts set up).
Gnome with a ton of extensions and a Catpuccin theme for gtk apps
NsCDE on several OSes.
This one is new to me.
Plasma, with the taskbar on the side, and 15 virtual desktops.
Shout out to keynav which has allowed me to start using Waterfox again.
fvwm3 on most systems, wmaker on a few, recently trying out kde for potential wayland migration
I’m running Niri on Debian.
