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If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] piefood@piefed.social 5 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I've been using spectrwm for over a decade https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm and have no plans to change

[–] double_quack@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Interesting, do you know i3wm? If so, what is the advantage of spectrwm over it?

[–] piefood@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I've looked at i3wm, but I never used it, so I don't know. If I had to move to another wm, i3wm seems like the first one that I'd look at, since they seem so similar

[–] double_quack@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I have a whole system around it, different machines sharing their config files (over a git repo), so if I tweak one, the others catch-up.

Also, you can "build the config file" (I am cat-ing several dynamic blocks depending on the machine I am sitting on) and then init the DE.

[–] piefood@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Ah, nice. I have a similar setup, I have a repo, and for each rc-file, I do:
cat shared/${general_config} ${machine_name}/${machine_specific_config} > ${rc_file_name}

So for spectrwm it does: cat shared/spectrewm.conf laptop/spectrewm.conf > ~/.spectrewm.conf

[–] double_quack@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Hahahah, same! I use a folders named as the hostname to build that machine's config on the fly. And all my config files are in one repo that then I stow

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