• Twongo [she/her]@lemmy.ml
    4·
    3 hours ago

    i used cinnamon in 2016 (worst time i think), then i briefly used gnome in '23. i’ve been using kde since '25 and i regret i have no desire to use anything else anymore.

    want a tiling wm? - just install a plugin and customize kde within 5 minutes

    want to build a mediabox with a simple ui for use with a remote on a tv? - just adjust the sizes and find one of a million widgets!

    do you want the ms win98 look? - it’s 3 clicks away!

    i am sure other DE’s may be better for my specific usecases. but the flexibility of kde gives me good enough results within a familiar environment. i can change my whole computer experience in a few clicks and revert whenever on the same de!

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
    4·
    12 hours ago

    I’m still stuck on i3 and sway. I hear there’s a version of KDE that is tiling…? But I haven’t found anything definitive on that.

  • versionc@lemmy.world
    10·
    19 hours ago

    I would love to give GNOME an honest try, but there are so many ways in which it feels like it’s actively working against me. In KDE I can for example create as many panels as I want on as many monitors as I want. On GNOME? There’s an extension to put the panel on another monitor, but then you can’t use the dock. I guess the GNOME developers don’t use multiple monitors? I mean you can’t even set different wallpapers on different monitors without a third party application.

    As for Niri, Hyprland and all that… Yeah, they’re cool, but I’m too old nowadays. I just want shit to work, even though I do miss some of the functions that exist e.g. on Hyprland that doesn’t exist in KDE. But on the other hand, the developer of Hyprland is an asshole, so I wouldn’t really want to promote or use the project anyway.

    • reksas@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      2 hours ago

      to me, gnome seems to be just bad ui design for people with stockholm syndrome about it.

  • spicy pancake@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    12 hours ago

    I want LXDE/LXQt to work so badly but I spend more time unbreaking shit than actually using my computer if I try to use them :(

  • hraegsvelmir@ani.social
    1·
    12 hours ago

    “Am I interested in other DEs?” and “Will I install them?” are two different questions though. Yeah, I had fun running i3 years back, but i3 isn’t the new hotness anymore, and there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell of me feeling like I have the time to learn and configure another WM. Absent my suddenly striking it rich and having entirely too much free time, I sincerely doubt there will come another time where I feel like I have that sort of time and nothing I’d rather use it for than such a mundane and endless task.

    • baltakatei@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      19 hours ago

      I tried Cosmic for a week. It looked nice but I returned to LXQt because I want:

      • To display time in ISO 8601 without also messing with locales
      • To customize my file manager columns
      • To use Emacs in a terminal emulator
      • To not have my windows scattered to the four winds every time I lock my screen because the fancy window tiling feature is half-baked
      • To have the X window manager back. I’m sure some people with use cases besides mine that are compatible only with Wayland, but I simply don’t see the need nor do I wish to be a guinea pig submitting bug reports when so many guinea pigs before me had years of their lives sacrificed polishing X.

      Also, the performance of programs like the default Cosmic file manager was much slower then comparable alternatives like pcmanfm-qt which I know run fast even on 2005 Compaq laptop hardware.