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.

  • megane-kun@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    I have KDE Plasma, Hyprland, and Mango (WM) installed.

    Of the three, I use Mango most of the time, and KDE Plasma sometimes. Hyprland, I’ve kept because most of my config was for it, and I’m still currently porting them to Mango. Most of the dotfiles are in their own areas, though I’ve mostly piggybacked on Plasma components. One area that I’ve got some trouble with is program theming. KDE Plasma has its own, Qt has its own (which is different from the KDE Plasma one), and GTK is yet another. I’ve decided that the best way to deal with it is to make them look as similar as I can, so that whether I’m on Mango, Hyprland, or KDE Plasma, my programs will look the same–except for the presence of window titlebars, which Mango doesn’t show, Hyprland shows via a plugin, but KDE Plasma does show.

    I used Ubuntu’s implementation of Gnome back when I started dabbling with Linux some time ago. I didn’t bother theming it. And then I moved to XFCE when that underpowered machine I was using couldn’t handle Ubuntu’s Gnome without feeling like it’s swimming in molasses. XFCE is nice and configurable in contrast, and I didn’t have much to complain about. However, I found its configuration back then to be quite troublesome, especially as I tried tweaking my own bars and panels.

    I then moved to KDE Plasma when I got my current machine. It was pretty okay out of the box, but coming from a tweaked XFCE, I couldn’t stop myself from theming it to my liking. Hyprland was introduced to me mid-2024, and I was thrust head-first into configuring it from scratch, no dotfiles to copy from, or pre-made shells to make my experience easier.

    At present, Mango won me over by having a decent vertical scrolling layout, as well as the flexibilty of using other layouts on the fly. While I like Hyprland’s level of polish and customizability, and recently have implemented scrolling (both vertical and horizontal), I am staying with Mango if only because I’ve already done the work porting most of my stuff there.

  • netvor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 hours 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 slock+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…)

  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
    1·
    2 hours ago

    I use mainly StumpWM, a tiling window manager which uses concepts very similar to Emacs. For example, one can define key chords, bind keys to lisp functions, and auto-generate input for a program window.

    If it isn’t available, I use i3, or occasionally GNOME.

  • dihutenosa@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    4 hours ago

    sway. I tried hyprland, but it was unable to switch between different maximized windows (monocle layout). There was a way, but it triggered a resize on every window switch, which was slow and annoying. I don’t know if it’s perhaps been fixed since then.

  • appauled@sh.itjust.works
    21·
    3 hours ago

    People tend to dislike this, but I LOVE gnome. It runs a lil heavy, but damn it’s clean, smooth, fast, easy & decluttered.

    No dot files, no config, and it’s intuitive

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    XFCE with Compiz with all the 3D effects enabled lol.

    If you want wayland then wayfire is supposed to be the spiritual successor, but it’s still technically beta software.

  • Veraxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    8 hours ago

    KDE. I don’t even do much to customize it. I think it looks pretty good out of the box.

    • comrade_twisty@feddit.orgEnglish
      6·
      7 hours ago

      The only thing I customize is to turn off the floating panel, I just can’t stand the small gap on the bottom and the sides. It just looks off to me.

      • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        4 hours ago

        I’d like to compliment on it changing that when you open a full screen app. Yet, these tiny pixels look so little difference that it looks very much off to me indeed. And I’d prefer to have no dock at all. So I use Sway for myself. It’s that I interact with KDE sometimes.