Which Desktop Environment are you using? And why?

xfce
easy peasy lemon squeezy

Unity. Does what I want with the limited amount of customization you can do and just werks™.

xfce because it's light and Linux will always look ugly anyway

MATE

Gnome. I really really like the Activities screen.
During normal use you have an uncluttered screen and a minimalistic top bar. Press the super key once and you have 1) an overview of all your open windows, 2) a dock for your favorite applications and 3) you can search for other applications or files by simply typing. Comfy/10.

>>56076949
Gnome 3 (currently on 3.20). It is simply the best DE Linux offers today. Stable, efficient, interesting usage paradigm. It doesn't get in your way once you understand how to use it (without shitty extensions, vanilla). Kinda like vim.

xfeces

>>56076949
Aqua. I like the spotlight, launchpad and dock are ok. I also like how document-based applications stay open even when all windows are closed.

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awesome wm

A FUCKING FOOT

>>56076949
LXDE cause it's okay with numix and my computer a trash

>>56076949
LXDE
Very low resources compared to the number of features.
Also has that old school feel I grew up with, and I still don't see a good reason to change it as most of the newer features are counter productive gimmicks. And the few features I do actually want I can add with a small program or some simple configuration changes.

>>56077142
Pls post wall

>>56077091
Nice AD, Gnome shill

>>56076949
Right now playing with xfce.

Before I liked kde a lot (with some tweaks).

>>56077080
Nice AD, Gnome Shill

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>>56077192

Unity

And please stop doing these threads
In future just do a strawpoll so you can link it over and over again instead of getting the same old responses every time

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is this the new desktop thread?

>>56077206
>>56077221
Nice SHITPOST, faggot

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>>56076949

KDE

>>56077142
I assume you don't go out with your laptop.
I can't imagine how incredibly awkward the situation will be if you show this to sane people.

>>56077254
A genuine post doesn't list features of a product in such detail

>>56077265
I think it's safe to assume he doesn't go out at all

>>56077265
I just change the wallpaper when I go out if I bring my laptop.

>>56077268
OP wanted to know what I like about my favorite DE, so I described what for me is their killer feature. How is that shilling, fuckface? Take your paranoia back to >>>/x/

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>>56077259
wtf is wrong with the clock?
Noone in the kde team finds this horribly wrong and poorly designed?
even default windows 10 is better.

>>56077294
Can't wait for the day you will forget to change and will have to turn on your laptop with people on the back.

http://www.strawpoll.me/10990721

Use this next time, faggot op
Seriuosly, these faggot threads need to be replaced with ongoing strawpolls, we get too much of this inane repetitive shit here and it's boring

>>56076949
Gnome for that professsional unified look and feel.

Ive been serving Gnome 3.20 on my family's PC and no one's been able to tell the difference.

No more Wangblows devices on my network feels really good.

>>56076949
Icewm

>ctrl+f "cinnamon"
>0 results
fuck this board

Aero ;^))

[spoiler]Xfce on my Linuxox[/spoiler]

>>56077331
Where's Aqua?

>>56077362
who?

also, you can choose something else (until your DE is important enough to care about)

1. Cinnamon
2. MATE
3. XFCE
4. KDE
5. Unity
6. LXDE
7. GNOME

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>>56077328

With the lower corner clock?

You can modify it anon, I just like it better the other way

>>56077324
>fuckface
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxY-5ISEHPg

>>56077253
What distro is this?

>>56077441
not him but you can achieve this design on every distro with gnome, you should ask for theme and icons.
the theme is arc, don't know about icon set.

considering the bad font rendering, this might be fedora or any fucked up minimal install of whatever distro.

>>56077503
I still can't decide if I should go with GNOME OR XFCE 2bh

>>56076949
LXDE, because that is what comes with Lubuntu. With a theme, it looks great.

>>56076949
xfce with xfwm replaced by xmonad

>>56077441
openSUSE Leap 42.1 with Arc theme and Papyrus icons

>>56077519
On a small screen with no mouse, I prefer the gnome paradigm but Xfce is good if you're low on ressource and want something "standard".
To achieve the usability of gnome you will need to configure your desktop. If that's not a problem, you'd better go with xfce.

>>56076967
*easy peasy one two threesy

>>56077672
difficult difficult lemon difficult

>>56077223
Thanks!

xfce, but I replaced xfwm4 with i3
add arc theme and numix icons and it feels glorious

GNOME in fallback mode

MATE on Ubuntu 16.04 and I really, really like it. Tried Cinnamon on LM before and didn't get into at all.

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Gnome, comfy as it gets

http://www.strawpoll.me/10990789/

>>56077733
Screenshot pls

>>56077777

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>>56077833
I'm going out so don't expect a reply soon if you ask for firefox configuration

>>56077324
Damage control, you can't convince people to use a product by insulting them

>>56077259

So no one else here /kde/? sad frog meme face

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OS X

>>56078089
KDE was never good. I've tried various versions since last millenium and it's always been a bloated unstable laggy pile of crap.

>>56078158

How is it bloated? My desktop is pretty minimalistic as you can see. Granted I use arch so I didn't install 90% of the KDE apps just the ones I use and are necessary for plasma to work

KDE

In Neon, it isn't bloated, laggy, or unstable.

>>56078146
It's called Aqua, you dip.

>>56078146
way to ruin a perfectly good desktop with some shitty pedotoons.

>>56078231
I use Unity and admit it uses a lot of memory but it lets me get stuff and stays out of my way and has a simple set of shortcuts.
The last time I checked which was 15.10, KDE used more memory than Unity, kept locking up and had a laggy menu, and was generally very painful to use. The worst part was that everything lagged on a machine that was butter-smooth with Unity. (i5 laptop + Nvidia GPU)

>>56078247
DIdn't try this though, might check it out at some point

#56078252
?? its OS X?

#56078254
are you gay? their 1000 years old.

None right now but thinking of dual booting with gnome 3 or cinnamon. xfce is great but sort of done with it and prefer new shit

Would Antergos gnome 3 be best route for gnome?

Or actual ubuntu gnome ISO

>>56078269

Plasmashell is using 120 MB in my system right now, but I have 8GB and I really don't care much. I might try gnome again in the future

>>56077259
Seconding this, KDE is literally the best DE both technically and usability wise.

>>56077778
wallpaper?

awesome-wm

DE like Gnome change too often and it triggers me.

1. Cinnamon (I use it because its default in mint)
2. Gnome (Would be first but crashes for me)
3. KDE plasma
4. OpenBox
5. i3

>>56078274
oh look it's this faggot

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>>56077080
>>56077091
>>56077338
Install these, configure the dash in the gnome-tweak-tool if you want, thank me later
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/118/no-topleft-hot-corner/
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/307/dash-to-dock/

#56078718
loser

>>56078489

can I see your desktop desu?

>>56077227
hello

wasn't me

>>56077253
that's pretty swell

whatcha did there

w the background/topbar

XFCE, because Gnome does not work with AMD's drivers last time I checked, and if my computer can't look good without effort, it better be efficient as all hell, which Xfce is.

Loki
Only DE to come with Vala-panel precompiled.

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>>56078981
Sorry I'm on mobile right now, if this thread is still here when I get home I'll post it

>>56076949
K D E
D
E

It has a proper file picker

ubuntu mate, it just werkz

>>56079752
Too bad the rest of it is unpolished and awful

what is best version of gnome in yalls opinion? ubuntu? antergos? debian? I guess scratch debian pointless these days

>>56080311
I'm eyeing Antergos but I can't say much.

gnome 3 had a long retarded struggle, it must have been 10 years or more? Now it's pretty good with extensions.

>>56076949

KDE, it lets me have thumbnails in my browser filepicker.

>>56078852
But anon, the hot corner and the lack of a dock are pros, not cons. Also, get rid of Adwaita, get some decent theme and icons.

MATE, on Linux Mint

My x130e laptop can't handle how SHIT the Mint menu is, so I replaced it with the Debian menu

Sorry, but if your menu is so bloated that you need MORE than this simple hardware to open it in more than 2 seconds, it's shit. I feel like I'm opening a Java application

>>56078489
*was in v3

mate

i messed around a bit with kde, unity, xfce, and cinnamon, i just like mate the most. kde is too ridiculous for me. if mate didn't exist i'd use xfce

>>56077253
What is that dock?

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I made a short review of window managers https://ghostbin.com/paste/tfnhk

There is a great site for this too http://xwinman.org/

XFCE4 with compiz for those jiggly windows.

>>56078146
posr scrren

Unity because MATE is shitty on HiDPI laptop diplays.

>>56076949
Most comfy for me is XFCE or Cinnamon.

>>56076949
I like MATE because 2009-2010 was the high point of my life.
Honestly they're all good though.

tried xfce and enabled the compositor - what the everloving fuck? it jerks all over the place. how do you use this shit?

>>56076949
>Which Desktop Environment are you using? And why?
Gnome 3

>>56076967
Xfce + Compton + Infinality + Ubuntu fonts + Paper = instant orgasm

>>56076949
Does anyone here use i3 by itself?

I have to say,
After getting used to it, I really see no point for a full blown DE.

>>56084018
I meant Arc-Darker + Paper icons

>>56077338
Gnome 2 was fine. Gnome 3 is a POS.

>>56078089
I'm using kde on my 2 machines. I try to cut back on the GUI on my x220, though because I need to save space there.

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>>56076949
Pic related because it looks nice and can use i3 keybindings

Cinnamon right now, but usually I run xfce. It had a pretty sick win3.1 theme until I switched OS

Not a DE. Using Ratpoison because is faster, scriptable and a hell lot fun.

>>56084538
Did it have flying toasters though?

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>>56076949
KDE because KDE Connect. It also looks and feels nice. It's super easy and more polished than something like Gnome or Unity.

>>56084888
Looks good.

>>56084926
Thanks.

KDE, because despite what /g/ says, it works great for me, not buggy at all, very customisable, not "bloated" (if this word is even still meaningful), just works really great.

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>>56080311
After doing some hardcore distro/DE hopping a few weeks ago, i gotta say Fedora or Antergos. Only real difference between the two is that Fedora is pretty close to stock, and Antergos is pre-rixed and ready to go.

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>>56076949
Gnome is super comfy for writing/creating

>>56085188
*pre-riced

>>56085188
Fuck off Antergosfag. Install Arch or go to Noobuntu or Plebian. If you want our goodies, install Arch. :^))))))) btw I am using Arch Linux.

>>56085236
>uses smiley with carat nose

>>56085197
>he's a ""content-creator""

>>56076949
KDE Plasma 5.7.
Heard it was supposed to have the best multimonitor support out of all DEs, and it's comfy.

>>56085299
That's what I said, anon.

>>56085325
It frequently shits the bed on my dual monitor setup. Panels initialize on the wrong monitor and then show programs that don't belong to it. Sometimes one screen stays completely black and sometimes programs start in an unreachable position.

Reconnecting the monitor cable and closing the lid on my notebook seems to help, but it's still super annoying

>>56085871
>Panels initialize on the wrong monitor
This happens to me all the time too, but this is about the only issue I have with it.
I use my laptop both by itself and docked with an external portrait monitor at work, and KDE is the most solid DE I've used with this, being the only one that manages to remember the monitor configuration and detect it automatically.

It's not perfect, but as far as I know it's the best we've got. Also Qt and thumbnails in Firefox's file picker are nice.

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>>56078359
i would go for manjaro gnome community, looks ugly but consistent. its easy as fuck to get looking great. pic related, subjective great. if your not a homestuck youll want it burned lmao. still cant figure out how to get the damn "wm" theme to change. is this using mutter or metacity? how do i change this shit either way? confused as fuck. it makes the bottom of guake look shit. whatever, i can deal with it. manjaro just makes shit easier especially with drivers and kernels

>>56084100
Are you me?