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.

  • ClipperDefiance@piefed.socialEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I use KDE. I like how easy it is to customize pretty much everything. Like, if I want everything to be green, I can make everything green and no one can stop me.

  • Don Antonio Magino@feddit.nl
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    13 days ago

    KDE Plasma, as it’s most Windows-like and it has lots of cool widgets to add to your desktop Windows 7-style.

    I’ve also tried Gnome, but I found it confusing and honestly a bit annoying. Not being able to properly minimise like I’m used to just really throws me off. I do think the visual style is well-designed, though.

    I’ve tried Cinnamon as well. I thought it looked a bit too cheap for my taste, at least by default on Mint.

  • Veraxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days 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
      1·
      13 days 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
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        13 days 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.

  • Frosty@pawb.socialEnglish
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    13 days ago

    KDE Plasma all the way, on the desktop, the laptops and the two set top boxes.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    KDE Plasma. It’s the most feature rich “just works” DE there is. GNOME doesn’t even have fucking maximize and minimize buttons by default without adding them via GNOME Tweaks.

    I used to be a Cinnamon/Linux Mint lover, but their slow implementation of Wayland, Window Scaling, and certain other annoyances like their split NetworkManager GUI between GNOME’s UI and the native NetworkManager UI made me switch.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
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      13 days ago

      For me: Gnome + extensions.

      The default Gnome feels way too locked down to me, and I don’t like some of the choices. But, with the right extensions “locked down” becomes “simplified enough to get out of your way”.

      • verdare@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        13 days ago

        Yeah, I’ve got a couple extensions as well. I tried out Bazzite and liked some of the changes they made, but wanted something closer to stock Gnome. Ended up just installing Silverblue and adding a few of those extensions back, to taste.

          • verdare@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            8 days ago

            I actually like the assurance of immutability. The main downside is that there’s just less documentation on how to do things, since it’s a very non-standard configuration for a distro.

            It’s also annoying having to reboot every time I layer a new package into the system image, but I try to avoid that as much as possible and haven’t had to do it recently.

            Adjusting to Flatpaks has also presented some challenges. In theory, I really like what Flatpaks offer in terms of app-level isolation, but some things are still rough around the edges. I’ve encountered at least one app that didn’t obey the system’s dark mode theming… Also, they still haven’t quite figured out a good way to handle GPU drivers, so you can run into compatibility issues between the usage driver in the runtime and the kernel driver in the system image.

            In my case, I’ve just had to update and restart the application when this happens, but it might cause problems if you try to roll back the OS image after already updating all your runtimes (resulting in a newer userspace driver trying to talk to an outdated kernel driver).