>>108618739
>Distro
Deb
>DE
Trinity
>would you recommend your setup?
No

>Distro
Mint
>DE
Xfce
>would you recommend your setup
Yes it justwerks no tinkertrannying necessary

>pantheon, aka macOS but worse
>great
Thanks OP, I will never waste my time watching this clown's videos.

>>108618739
>distro
Windows 10 LTSC
>desktop env
explorer.exe
>window manager
you don't need one, code on the left and terminal on the right, alt+tab or win+1/win+2 etc. to focus a window
>would you recommend
it just werks

Debian
XFCE
>recommend
Eh, I would only recommend it to another jaded old fuck like me

>distro
Windows 11
>DE
Fluent UI
>WM
DWM.exe
>recommend
Yes, highly

>Distro
Fedora
>DE
Kde
>would you recommend your setup?
yes
I also have two old laptops: 2011 Dell with Debian Gnome and an 2012 Macbook pro with Fedora Silverblue.

>>108618880
>>108618903
why are you such attention whores? prying for replies from people you allegedly hate is mentally ill

>>108619195
I don't hate other posters here.

>>108618739
artix
sway
>recommend
niggaballs
your welcome mr. nsa agent

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is it still possible to make kde look like this still? or are you trapped with the modern shit?

>>108619251
nope it can look like that no problem with addon themes. just look in discover

>>108619248
baste

>>108618739
>distro
arch
>desktop environment
xfce
>window manager
fvwm3

but i'm thinking of switching to kde. any opinions? stay or switch? i don't need the lightweightness of either xfce or fvwm, but i do enjoy how snappy and efficient xfce is, especially thunar. kde would probably be the same i'm wagering though, at least on 16gb ram.

>>108619195
>people you allegedly hate
seems like someone else has a problem with hate here

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>distro
deb
>DE
xfce
>would you recommend
i mean it just werks, but you need to follow your own path to discovery which distro/DE feels or works best for you.

>>108618912
>>Distro
>Fedora
>>DE
>Kde

>2012 Macbook pro with Fedora Silverblue
Silverblue=gnome

I use Kinoite btw

>>108618739
kde and xfce are fine. i'd prefer a tty and screen or tmux over gnome.
i don't have an opinion on the others.

>>108618739
>Distro
Gentoo
>DE
Xfce
>would you recommend your setup
Idk

>Distro
NixOS
>WM
Hyprland
>would you recommend your setup?
Only if your time is worthless

>>108618859
>t. systemd cuck
Enjoy eternity in hellfire.

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>>108618739
>distro
Fedora
>DE
KDE
>recommend?
yeah, it's pretty good. not too bleeding edge but not borderline anemic like debian-based distros. I don't really have anything to complain about other than FESCO's autism about proprietary codecs. If they included the option to install them like ubuntu does then they would be perfect IMO.

great: dwm or unity
shit: everything else

Kde is the premier DE these days, by a long shot, and the only get more pronounced as valve keeps chipping in. Would be nice if it had native tiling support

As for distros, it's Arch/Fedora. Ubuntu has gone down a bewildering path and even though it's what I started with I can't imagine ever using it again

>>108618739
>distro
cachyOS
>DE
KDE
>recommend?
Ya if you use snapper and btrfs to have rlly easy backups. Most pieces of your system never break but KrashDE tends to break every couple months in a rather catastrophic way. Simple enough, snap back to before the update, wait a couple of days, update again, things work. I've tried a wide range of distros and desktops, if you want a functional and good looking / feeling desktop with VRR and HDR you basically have to go rolling release with KDE. Gnome is a meme. I am probably one of the only people who sincerely adore it's workflow but it is just BTFO by KDE for things like gaming.
>Y not fedora or opensuse
Sorry but fedora and it's derivatives are fucking awful imo. I feel like it breaks more often than any other distro I've used. No thanks. 99% of the time on Arch or an Arch derivative things just work. For the small percentage they don't, they can be easily restored back to functioning order w snapper. Opensuse I tried for a week and thought it was fine. Probably better than fedora.

I dual boot with win10 LTSC for some kernel anti cheat slop games. Secure boot on Arch is ezpz with sbctl.

>>108620038
You can use kwin_wayland with LXQt
so you can have your fancy features AND a good looking desktop

>>108620058
Yoo I didn't know this. Fuck KDE then

>>108618859
>Mint
Enjoy your x11 session

>>108618739
fedora kde

Arch with i3
>would you recommend your setup
No I don't recommend my setup. I recommend experimenting and finding what suits you.

>>108618739
Cinnamon and KDE are the only desktop environments in current year. If you use anything else you have simply made the wrong choice. The 'lightweight' ones are not even lightweight at all, they are barely any different to Cinnamon or KDE on resources if you do a few tweaks like getting rid of animations and gay shit like that. If you can't run KDE or Cinnamon then you can't run any of the others either and you need to look into some actual lightweight solution like i3 or some shit. If your computer is that shit then you can't really use it as a computer in the modern sense anyway, a single browser tab in a fully featured modern browser will already be more than the entire DE.

The tradeoff for literally a fraction of a percent of your ram is you get a DE that is so fucking ugly and retarded and missing half the features any computer should have by default, and you need to spend days finding all the shit you need and adjusting it to not look hideously stupid and ugly.

People hear 'lightweight' and think they are some computer connoisseur making the more sophisticated choice, or some hardcore hacker extracting maximum performance at the bare metal, but neither of those things are true. You are just making more work for yourself for a worse outcome.

Obviously this doesn't apply to Gnome but I shouldn't even have to mention Gnome and why it sucks dick.

i use freebsd, the complete OS, and get straight to work. i dont have time to tinker with Linus’ pet project.

>>108619195
>assumptions by fear
this is an indication that maybe, just maybe, you're the only mentally ill person here

>>108620294
there is nothing wrong with xfce

Mint Cinnamon. It just werks.

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>GREAT: unity
based

>>108618739
Arch
Cinnamon
Not Really, no

>>108618739
>distrofags have more desktop environments than lgbtbbq++ have genders

>Distro
secureblue (hardened fedora atomic)
>DE
KDE
>would you recommend your setup
Yes. It just works and at the same time is more secure than any other distribution

my own distro
KDE
yes it just works

>>108618739
Lumina was good, but if you still have it listed, you need to update this.

>>108618739
Gnome 3 is easily S-tier. The only DE from which MacOS stole features from.
You have to be retarded to not figure out how to use it. An actual luddit.

Although I say that, I don't enjoy it anymore. Gnome devs are pussies and they listened to you, all the retarded faggots that don't know how to use a computer. Because they relied on opinions of such lowly people, Gnome went in a completely different directions lately and will not emphasise what it used to anymore. It used to be top1 multidesktop environment with simultaneous mouse and touch support, key bindings esily configurable (2-3 minutes to set it up and forget for years).

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>>108620181
I am enjoying it very much.

>>108618739
Manjaro with KDE/XFCE/i3wm
>why
The snapshot menu in the grub
Kernel selection
Manjaro-chroot
Basically it's more stable arch and more bleeding edge than fedora.

>>108618739
Bad list

Gnome is way too high

>>108618739
Ubuntu and gnome. I only use it because I have a dell laptop and dell supports Ubuntu.

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>>108621036
>Not Really, no
What is your big fuckin problem man?
Although to be fair once I had finished setting up I felt like I might as well have just stayed on Mint

>>108621663
This image is killing me. God I love Linux Mint but fuck I hate jittering, tearing, and not being able to use my mouse above 500hz. When they get Wayland working properly on cinnamon I'm swapping to it. Is it worth using on other distros or is it retarded?

>>108618739
Currently I'm sticking to Mabox Linux. It's kinda small distro based on Manjaro and with pretty cute, custom Openbox implementation. It's a gimmick but I find it comfy as fuck.

>>108622090
Just install Xlibre. The Ubuntu/Debian instructions for it work just fine on Mint.

NixOS
Hyprland and KDE (X11)
Not really. It works for me but most would be annoyed by the quirks.

My mother lost all her toes in Vietnam.

>distro
Artix
>WM
i3wm
>would you recommend
100%. Dunst for notifications, rofi for application launching. Let me guess, you need more?

>distro
Guix
>desktop
labwc with waybar
>recommendation
labwc is no nonsense and Guix is worth it if you like what it offers

>>108622110
Y'know what fair enough. I think I will go for it. I don't like the developer of xLibre because he should keep his faggot ass opinions out of his work. I do like his work tho, xLibre seems so nice.

>Distro
Pop!_os 22.04 LTS.
>DE
GNOME
>would you recommend your setup?
Specifically? No, because it's outdated there's only a year of support left on 22.04 LTS. I haven't had a chance to evaluate COSMIC yet.

I've tried using Xfce and used CDE ages ago but I've never found any of the advantages to be worth the hassle of switching. CDE was cool when it meant you were running Solaris on a SPARCstation in the 90s, but those days are long gone. I also tried KDE a few times back in the late 2000s but just never went down that path. I hear good things but it's never been enough to bother switching it up.

>Yes it justwerks no tinkertrannying necessary
Yet you’re always slower than my dwm, alacritty + vimium