I got rid of my window from my secondary partition(gaming addiction) and now I have a 128 GB m.d. i have been running Linux mint for most of my Linux experience but want to try out something out side the traditional windows setup
I have tried those setups
- Linux mint xfce
- Linux mint cinnamon
- fedora workstation(gnome)
- fedora silverblue(gnome immutable)
- fedora kde
- majaro cinnamon
I would hope for sometimes were the learning curve isn’t too extreme for me(i3 was too much)
I mean at this point you’ve pretty much hit most things with the exception of a WM but you’ve stated that i3 was too much for you so…there isn’t really anything else. you’ve done xfce, cinnamon, gnome, and kde. that’s it. Other than say LabWC but if i3 was too much than that’s not going to be much better. And I’m assuming when you say “too much” you mean editing the configuration?
you could do something like Niri or Hyprland with Quickshell/DankMaterialShell where the config is all done essentially via the DMS/GUI setup for it.
Honestly the last one would be COSMIC DE. but if you’ve used GNOME already you might not like it. COSMIC does give you the option to toggle between stacking and tiling so that’ll be different than what you’ve already used but if you liked the customization of the previous DE’s you’ve used you’re going to be disappointed with COSMIC as the customization for it right now is very limited.