I have been flip-flopping between so many different setups lately, but I have yet to find the one. I am currently trying Gnome out, and while I don’t think it feels as bad as I was led to believe there are a couple of niggling issues that keep me from committing totally.

    • Ivysaur@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      We have a well-loved crt but no room for it currently; my wife used it as the “retro game/anime viewer” lol

  • Zvyozdochka [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    GNOME gets a lot of hate for various reasons, but I really like it and don’t really see myself giving it up anytime soon, I like it maybe a little too much… It looks pretty good out of the box, it has a really nice workflow once you get used to it, it has tons of extensions to change things you may not like or to add completely new things, it has a nice ecosystem of apps (GNOME Circle), and tons more. Though, I really dislike their decision of not wanting to support server-side decorations for clients, but it’s a relatively small problem and it’s whatever at the end of the day.

    tldr: I use GNOME.

    • dannoffs [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      GNOME is the death metal of DEs to me in that I respect what they’re doing and see why a lot of people like it, but it doesn’t appeal to me at all.

    • Ivysaur@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I do appreciate how simple integration of Gnome is with Guix; it’s a few service type fields, only a couple of lines, and it’s ready to go. I want to give it a more prolonged shot, this time around. I will say I don’t really like how they keep pushing “the Gnome way” thing, and for all their enthusiasm for flatpaks I have recently run into a very specific and irritating problem with Gnome shell’s application menu and Gnome apps installed through flatpak, wherein they simply do not launch. They display just fine, the .desktop exec= lines work when pasted into a terminal window, and rofi’s drun mode launches them…I don’t know what on earth causes this and it is very frustrating to troubleshoot since I don’t know where that particular messaging lives, and everything works dandy via command line. Regardless of that it is a very smooth experience and they really do have the look and feel nailed, imo.

  • itappearsthat [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m using stock Sway. It basically does nothing (you even have to install your own program launcher) but this fits my needs perfectly well. I’m comfortable configuring things using text files and the command line though.

  • hello_hello [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m using KDE right now and never found a need to switch. It has all the modern features that you want in a DE (VRR, Wayland, modularity etc.)

    Fedora Kinoite has been my daily driver for little more than 6 months now. I consider it the best Linux distro (personal hello hello seal of approval)

    • Ivysaur@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I don’t know what I would consider the best of any of this stuff right now. I’ve used so much and none of it has ever stuck with me for very long, even when I was a teenage tinkerer decades ago. I’m so indecisive! I really like what NixOS/Guix System are doing but I don’t think I could in good faith recommend either for anything to anyone as it stands despite my own frequent wall-to-head ordeals in trying to daily driver Guix. Declarative, transactional systems absolutely feel like future shit to me, but I would not call the UX at all very pleasant; maybe it never will be. That’s unrelated to WMs and DEs though. I feel like of all the things i3/sway were, so far, my favorites there.

  • dannoffs [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Back when I was at peak nerd and sitting in front of a computer all day everyday, I used Xmonad. These days I use KDE.

    Edit: also in b4 hello_hello can reccomend COSMIC.

  • EcoMaowist [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I used KDE for a bit, but I relapsed on GNOME, it is just such a smooth and satisfying experience. Excited for Cosmic now though, I was just going to write it off before I saw theming for GNOME apps.

  • Beetle_O_Rourke [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    AwesomeWM.

    Lack of Wayland support isn’t much of an issue as I am stuck with nvidia graphics.

    I like how there is a sane default config. In ~1.5 years of running it on my machine, I literally haven’t touched the default config.