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KDE is pretty enough that I’m willing to put up with my decade-old laptop freezing every time I switch windows
Cinnamon is reliable enough that I’m willing to put up with it being kinda ugly on my desktop PC
I still don’t know enough about Linux to have any opinions deeper than aesthetic differences
Good that we have choices, no? (I use GNOME btw)
I like gnome
I admire your bravery to admit such a thing. You’re a fool, but a brave fool.
I also really like GNOME and was a diehard for a loong while but god damn Plasma6 is amazing and I don’t know if I can go back to GNOME. I swear KDE went from being one of the worst examples of UI (UX was always alright) design to one of the best.
Gnome I customize once, take a day, have some fun, and I’m done. Kde I customize at least once everyday. and always want to change something because of how simple it is to move/add/change stuff. I end up spending more time customizing than using my pc. I’ll prob swap back to kde at some point, but gnome extensions just remind me of cydia and feel good to use. I like opinionated extensions that ppl have ppl have put thought and development time in to, like the extensions are usually intutive and have gone through a lot of testing to get to they layout that they have. They just work.
Imma throw hands, respect my gnomies.
Laughs in xfce
Peak
Both are meh. I wanted to love KDE but it always lets me down. Cinnamon has been great, running a fedora spin with it now. Sway has been calling my name tho.
Gnome apps are better than KDE apps. GParted vs partition manager, for example. Dolphin sucks eggs next to Nemo too.
Just my incorrect opinions obviously. Use the stuff ya like.
I love nemo, with the terminal extension, it’s the perfect file manager.
I use it on gnome though.
With just arcmenu, dash to panel, and tophat, gnome becomes pretty solid for me, everything else is just a bonus
dropdownterminal, I think openbar for color and border customization, timer in topbar for self timing work assignments, appstatus whatever its called for the background apps to show up, it does rely on extensions, but I see that as a bonus, it’s up to you how complicated you want your setup to be
Burnmywindows ofc
I also think its great for handhelds, have dash to panel and arcmenu there too but configured differently. On the left side and resized larger with less options and one of the larger grid options for arc menu
How dare you :P Dolphin is great; always use Gnome-Disks though (and GParted Live in the times of yore)
You may fail to understand this if you are not a programmer but Dolphin is somehow both singleton and multi instance.
Its messy code is mostly made for single instance meanwhile there can be multiple dolphin instances.
The most basic way to observe this is to simply open a second dolphin window in a different folder. New Dolphin will bring tabs from the old Dolphin likely because it thinks those are previously closed tabs meanwhile nothing changes in old Dolphin window. What a mess.
Happy sway user here! Not sure I could ever go back to a floating window manager. I’m too used to tiling now.
Any advice? Or some good dot files / configs / guide you used?
Honestly I’d start with the default config file to see if you like the general workflow and then begin modifying as you see fit. That’s how I started way back when I first learned i3.
Maybe first replace it’s default swaybar with the more customizable waybar.
Really? I remember Nemo being my favorite GTK file manager, but that was some years ago. When I started using Dolphin I thought that it was the best file manager I’ve ever used. I still think that, but as mentioned above, I’ve not tried Nemo in years.
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Kde looks unpolished. Always reminds me of windows.
I don’t know why, but gnome is just attractive in a way that makes me want to suck gnome dick
“Unpolished” and “like Windows 7” is exactly what I want. I don’t want to be distracted by my DE, it should just work.
I hate GNOME not because it looks bad (though some parts do) but because of their ways of doing stuff. Best example imo is libadwaita and client side decorations.
For people who don’t know what libadwaita means here - GNOME by default does not support one of the most common way gui apps do tray icons, you need an extension for it (which is obviously pre-installed by many distros).
Cuz who needs a tray
This, so much this!
Cinnamon is where it is at. Also, I am happy you found something you like. 👍
I’m excited for Wayland support
I don’t hate GNOME but I dislike GTK a lot
I use niri btw
you are an awesome person
i did use awesome many months, maybe a year or two ago, but nowadays i’m a niri person
Fucking love KDE dude. Plasma6 is my jam.
I’ve just switched to KDE and it’s great, but it has about the same amount of cons as gnome.
I gave Cosmic a go recently and it’s great, but not quite ready yet. I think in a few updates time, I’ll be switching. It’s kind of like a cross-over of gnome and KDE and addresses a lot of the long standing pain points of both.
I’ve been bashing my head against sway for days I just wanna go back to i3 😭
I started on sway and moved to swayfx, out of curiosity what are some of the things i3 provided that sway lacks?
Nothing that it lacks I’ve just never touched Wayland because my hardware hasn’t supported it (I use ewaste machines primarily) and I’m fighting wayland, sway, swaybar and basically the whole thing because I want everything to work the way it did with x11 but it doesn’t and I’m resistant to change.
Preach!
Over the past year I’ve gradually switched from Gnome to Plasma but it’s so fucking clunky I do miss Gnome. I feel like it’s in the right place but it just needs rebuilding from the ground up in the modern world.
