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.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
    16·
    6 days 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.

  • Frosty@pawb.socialEnglish
    17·
    7 days ago

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

  • ClipperDefiance@piefed.socialEnglish
    21·
    7 days 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.

  • Don Antonio Magino@feddit.nl
    16·
    7 days 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.

    • doctorflynt@feddit.org
      5·
      7 days ago

      Gnome Vanilla is really not that good. But with Extensions and Gnome Tweaks its usable.

      Gnome Tweaks enables the minimize button and Extensions enable pretty much everything one could ask for.

      I prefer the simplified UI of Gnome to the thousands of options that KDE offers out of the box. But KDE is a really good DE and i used it without problems over a year.

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    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.

    • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      2·
      3 days ago

      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.

    • sakphul@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      5 days ago

      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.

  • netvor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    6 days ago

    i3

    With alacritty, qutebrowser, neovim and LibreWolf. I use my custom dmenu-based utilities for things like launching apps, locking (with slock), controlling (ie. postponing :D) redshift and music player and opening bookmarks, links and searches. Thunar is the most DE-like app I use but being comfortable with Bash i use Thunar just for certain tasks like organizing files like photos. For quick text edits, I sometimes prefer Mousepad. For screenshots it’s slop+maim.

    I don’t “rice”, I just set some color schemes years ago and use simple wallpaper (which I rarely see.) And keep everything as minimal and out of way as possible.

    (I don’t care about Wayland unless I’m somehow forced to. I mean, some of my utils depend on X11 for things like clipboard access but I suppose it could be fixed easily nowadays. However X11 works fine for me so if it ain’t broken…)

    • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      2·
      3 days ago

      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.