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What DEs are people using? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ABeeinSpace@lemmy.world to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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I wanted to get a feel for everyone’s thoughts on desktop environments (or window managers if you don’t use a DE). I’m new to Lemmy, so apologies if this is too low-effort a post.

Personally I’m running KDE on my main computer, but I have an Arch virtual machine I use for more experimentation. That VM has seen KDE, i3, and will probably see hyprland at some point soon

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[–] n8schicht@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For years I was using KDE, but since 2-3 years I'm now using Cinnamon: it's fast, it's uncluttered, it gets the job done. I like it 😊

[–] ABeeinSpace@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Totally valid! I use KDE because I like eye candy. I also like the ability to have a menu bar like macOS does.

Is Cinnamon in the repos? I’ve used Cinnamon when I played around with Linux Mint. It’s pretty fast, no real complaints with it. Customization can be difficult ime, which is part of the reason I went with KDE. Themes and whatnot are so easy to find because of the downloader built in

[–] n8schicht@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes it's in Extra so it can be installed quite easily: Arch Cinnamon

Themes can be installed from within it's Settings Menu, so I can't complain there 😊