If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose?
If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose?
I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it's Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)...etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.
Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the "Flagship Manjaro version". I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.
After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.
What about you guys?
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DK (similar to BSPWM or i3/sway). I have zero interest in "DE's" like KDE or Gnome, or anything heavily reliant on using a mouse.
Why did you pick DK among the "same kind" ones? (like i3wm, which is what I currently use)
DK is really small, and doesn't try to do anything other than manage windows, and has a very simple shell script for configuration. I use sxhkd, polybar, and bemenu (with a frequency script) for everything else that I need.
I ran sway for a few months but it was missing one crucial ability that I've grown used to, which is to rotate the windows through the stack.
Finally a cultured person!