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What's your favorite DE, and what does your workflow look like? (is.hardlywork.ing)

submitted 2 days ago by Dil@is.hardlywork.ing to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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After trying out Cosmic, Gnome,KDE Plasma, and Hyprland, I feel like plasma is the most usable for me coming from Windows. It solves the gripes I had about lack of customizability while still starting me off with a familiar homebar. I will be going back and forth with gnome for a while.

I really like gnome and the sliding desktops, and all the extensions seem to make it very customizable as well, but not directly like plasma, instead you mix and match (or make) extensions to get the look you want. (correct me if im wrong, I used it for a day)

Hyprland seems very nice for multitasking but the keyboard focus of the presets ive tried doesn't really appeal to me, I like being able to just use my mouse sometimes.

Cosmic, is definitely an alpha and im interested to see what it becomes, wont be using it now.

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[–] enbee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago (7 children)

dwm is neat

[–] ClownsInSpace2@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I yearn for the day Debian gets proper DWL support

[–] enbee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (5 children)

didn’t realize debian does not have dwm support. been thinking about putting it on my deb based laptop bc it feels so nice on my desktop. what do you run?

[–] ClownsInSpace2@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sway right now, setup was super straightforward. I just wish it had some dynamic tiling functionality. Plus I really like the suckless mentality of starting with basic functionality and patching in features as needed.

[–] enbee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Same. Check out breadonpenguins on the yew tube, some real cool tweaks on their GitHub. their vids inspired me to use dwm.

[–] ClownsInSpace2@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Love breadonpenguins, she def inspired me too, I’m talking about DWL tho, like the Wayland fork of DWM. I had some issues w the dependencies they had listed.

[–] enbee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I still do not understand Wayland. It’s an alternative to X?

[–] cymor@midwest.social 3 points 2 days ago

It's to be the replacement for Xorg/X11.

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