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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 2 months 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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[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

True people only use i3 or the-other-i3-for-wayland

/s, of course. But still my personal choice

[–] Vegetvs@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm a long time supporter of Xfce, but I have to say Cinnamon these days. It's light on resources while being feature rich. Also it's the default on Mint and it just works.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

I use XFCE, but I like Cinnamon too. I use Nemo and Xed instead of Thunar and...whatever.

[–] the_wiz@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Well, for me it would be the setup i am now using since about 15 years:

WM: flwm Filemanager: ROX-Filer Background: feh

... and a ton of tools i accumulated over the yesrs

[–] philluminati@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

I have literally been using the same build of dwm as my desktop env since 2007.

[–] lemmyausmister@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago

Mint

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