Desktop environment

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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i am a user of arch linux and i am interested in what other people are using for their desktop i am using cinnamon

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cinnamon for my main rig Unity for my htpc the side bar works really well when sitting on the couch xfce for my netbook.

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Just using i3 Window Manager for everything, simple, minimal and always works perfectly. Also arch on all systems.

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i used i3 for a bit and i did like it however i do like a desktop environment i will admit i have only been using linux for about a year and i moved from windows but i will have to try i3 again i have heard great things

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I have Manjaro KDE on my server and Manjaro Cinnamon on my htpc.

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I'm about to drop arch all together for Chakra... Its similar to AR and arch based but focuses only on my favorite desktop.. Kde plasma 5.. Which tbh is the most modern and advanced desktop on linux

And I know murder me hahaha but LXQT opensuse 42.1 on my smaller devices.. And my server is suse server using the LXQT env

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Gentoo/Plasma

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KDE and AwesomeWM

I want to play with AmiWM and I am a fan of JWM

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debian/openbox for my athlon 64 x2 5000+ and I haven't decided on what to run seamless on my main desktop

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Gnome

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Arch with kde is on my main pc, thinking of buying a laptop for Linux use

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My favorite DE´s are probably either XFCE or Cinnamon.
Nicely customizable and pretty straight forward.
I also realy like the looks of KDE plasma,
but unfortunatly its still a bit heavy on resources and it still has some bugs in it.

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I haven't noticed even the slightest hiccup with the latest release of kde, I do have 16gb of ecc ram in my pc though so you would still be a bit screwed on the resource side of things

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KDE, 5.5.5 and since has been just a series of awesome releases.

Ever since using KDE, GTK theming pisses me off with how inconsistent it can be.

And it looks pretty. :D

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Cinnamon (on Mint).

TBH I like MATE more, but I did run into issues whenever I tried to use that on my main PC. It just doesn't seem to like dualscreen setups.

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XFCE - lightweight, fast and simple
Been my favourite for few years on Ubunutu, Debian and now Manjaro

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I'm using i3-gaps-next across all my devices but on occasion, I'll fall back to cinnamon when I'm doing things that don't work properly in i3. (libreoffice likes to not render properly)

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I use Gnome on my Antegros install.

Thinking about switching to something else though. I've experienced issues with Gnome on plain Arch install as well as my Antegros install. Not sure if it's a Gnome or Arch issue with my machine. Not smart enough, or interested enough, to figure out which...so just going to throw a different DE at it and see how that goes.

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KDE

All the way baby

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For looks i love kde, unfortunately it doesn't play nice with my configuration, for stability i like xfce