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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What desktop enviroment do you use and why? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Mwa@thelemmy.club to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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So a few months back I asked about you guys os in c/asklemmy, so this time I wanna ask about your desktops you use on this same account.
(I use kde but plan to move to cinnamon I find kde buggy and gnome tracker3 randomly broke for no reason + themeing so yh idk if these happened to anybody)

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[–] Charadon@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

KDE Plasma 5.

It's default on Slackware =P

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

Gnome because it came with ubuntu and I'm too scared to change it to kde incase everything breaks. Really don't want to reinstall something else again either

[–] owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Xfce

I've daily driven every major DE except KDE (GNOME, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon) and I always ended up switching back to xfce. I'm not a fan of GNOME's workflow and since it's not that customizable without extensions, that made me switch from it very quickly. I used Cinnamon on Mint for a few months and while the experience was mostly fine, it sometimes felt a bit laggy. As for MATE, while I love the GNOME 2 layout and it's a relatively lightweight DE, I encountered plenty of visual bugs there and I could very easily replicate that GNOME 2 layout on Xfce (without a system menu, but still).

[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

KDE at home "gaming" desktop, but would love to move away from it, for various bugs and non-working configurations. At work and home laptop I am using WMs, riverwm / i3.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 5 months ago

Same, I wanna move to another desktop.

[–] spacedout@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's hard to go back after Sway/I3 with pywal coloration, when everything is so sluggish in comparison. It's amazing to see gnome and KDE adding like a second to launch/quit of common applications. Tried hyprland, but animations seemed choppy (beefy AMD desktop), has that changed?

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I love gnome and use that for everything except gaming. If I want to game I use KDE

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