Gnome with extensions is basically a better cosmic for me
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Default gnome is rough, but arcmenu for customizable start menu, and a couple other extensions that ive never had issues with being outdated make it the best de for me, kde I end up adding too much clutter or never feel satisfied customizing compared to gnomes default look
The thing I love about cosmic is the themeing and customization, but most of all the native tiling mode.
Can you really get a good tiling mode on Gnome?
Im assuming you haven't checked, there are multiple extension options, just look up gnome tiling, I like it
Favourite DE & Current DE: GNOME. Simply the only one with a consistent and modern design.
Least Favourite: cosmic. This needs a lot more polish before I consider it anywhere close to an actual option. Currently it looks childish to me.
First DE used: Unity. It's been a long, long time.
DE you wanna use in the future: None. I'm done DE hopping, no DE can deliver the level of consistency and polish that GNOME can deliver anymore.
Longest used DE: Pantheon. On elementary OS. Gnome took a long time to get its shit together, but at least it did.
Honourable Mention: KDE. It's... Meh. It fixed some things consistency-wise, but it's still stuck in the past when it comes to UI paradigms. It claims customisability, it's only customisable in ways that barely matter anymore and can only break consistency. Insane workload on the app devs and the theme devs to have something working reliably as well.
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I don't think I can really fit my opinions neatly into these categories. I tend to lean toward Gnome because it does what I need it to do, seems to have the fewest problems and annoyances, while still being fully featured.
I really want to like KDE Plasma, and have been using it more, but it still has a number of things that bug me. Some programs run inexplicably slow on it. It goes a little overboard with notifications and popups. Like do I really need to approve my game controllers almost any time I plug them in?
On the other hand, it really is fully featured, and I love the KDE Connect integration.
Haven't used anything else in years, cause I always find other des/wms to just be a little too short on features. Did used to like XFCE a lot though.
Cosmic is actually usable now? I thought it was still missing some pretty major features.
Cosmic Files is glitchy as hell, but otherwise it's great!
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- Favourite: GNOME
- Honourable Mention: Stable Hybrid Release (SHR) for OpenMoko
- Least Favourite: dwm
- First: twm or maybe fvwm95 on Slackware 96
- Current: GNOME
- Longest Used: GNOME
- Future: GNOME
In the 1990s I also used IceWM and Enlightenment. My first DE was KDE, but I have been using GNOME pretty consistently for twenty years.
first: gnome current: gnome favourite: niri honourable mention: kde least favourite: cosmic (probably as i used it from an alpha that probably wasn't ready to daily drive yet) longest used: no idea, i've used niri, kde, gnome, xfce and leftwm for considerable periods of time future: i want to go back to niri at some point, just using gnome for the convenience for the moment
i3/sway for life
First DE used was definitely Cinnamon. Longest use should be awesome or i3, mah be close. Least favourite definitely awesome though, due to the way you have to configure it. It's just such a mess. My favourite is also my current: herbstluftwm. Configuring it is actually fun (Btw, I am not into ricing, I am rather implementing unnecessary things). And I am still waiting for a wm which would actually convince me to use on wayland. That one would be the future wm^^
Hehe. I love these. I wonder what's next? Text editors? Web browsers? Terminal emulators? Init systems?
I was a mite tempted to make a logo for my xmonad config, that I've whimsically been calling a window manager, called Tabularboonad for about 14 years. But really, it's just an xmonad config.
I was a mite tempted to attempt to wrangle some contrived reasoning, and positioning on the chart, for my wminizer scripts, since (similar to the prior distro one, with my bedrocklinux use), I do not limit myself to just one wm (or distro), and really, I can switch between any window managers I have installed (and have listed in one of wmnizer's wmrotate scripts (or the selection list, in the wmnizer2 branch)), such as xmonad, dwm, herbstluftwm, spectrwm, dk, icewm, openbox, without restarting X11(Xorg/XLibre/Pheonix/TinyX), keeping all my gui running seamlessly, as I switch wm in a split second. ... So if following the logic of BedrockLinux, that it's the distro I use, not the multitudes within/upon it, then instead of xmonad (+^)I should say wminizer [(oops, just realised i misspelled wminizer as wmnizer in the rudimentary logo I hastily scribbled for it earlier [when tempted use it here], lol, doh.)]. But, that's not the same. Doesn't feel right to try use that logic.
I suppose I should not have been so surprised to see xmonad show up so much in this one.
Whee. These are fun.
wasn't really planning on making another one, but yknow what? Maybe I will make one for web browsers
- Fave: Sawfish WM
- First: Either KDE3 or Xfce, not sure which one was first
- Future: Sawfish hopefully
- Least Fav: Gnome, anything that's tiling
- Current: Sawfish
- Longest: Either Sawfish or Xfce, not sure which
- Honorable Mention: amiwm because it actually has the pull-down-the-screen thing
- Current Distro: Slackware
I'd really like to learn Python so I can customize qtile
What's that raindrop one in the middle?
Hyperland, a wayland based tiling wm
fluxbox
