Desktop Environments

KDE

>>56378988
fpbp

>>56378988
1/5 points
no explanation
see me after class with lube

>>56378881
KDE Plasma
File picker

Gnome 3, because it is the closest thing to elder god tier OSX

>>56378881
Explorer.
Just works.

I love how simplistic is LXDE, so I'll go for it.
Also XFCE is a good one but I prefer speed to advanced graphics such as Gnome3

>>56378881
kde, it just werks and I don't use any hardware that makes it chug

more intuitive than gnome coming from windows

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>>56379239
Enjoy your desktop crashes

Gnome 3.
Clean, simple, win key application search and switching.

Xfce

Because it strikes the perfect balance between being lightweight like i3 and usable like KDE for example. It was designed for productivity, and not ricing.

>>56379375
>>lightweight like i3
hahahahaha

CDE

Ubuntu Gnome.

It just looks good.

>>56380166
This. I would use CDE if OpenCDE weren't so buggy on GNU/Linux, its not very resource intensive and looks nice af

>>56378881
mint.

boosts my productivity.

>>56381221
Linux Mint is a Debian based Linux Distro. You can put a wide variety desktop environments on it.

Which desktop environment do you prefer to use with Linux Mint?

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I use Debian Stretch + KDE Plasma because it just werks and is comfy as fuck.

>>56381672
Dat P38, good choice man.

i3
using mouse-based DEs on a laptop hurts like hell after a while.

>>56378881
xfce
It just werks and it's light.

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Unity of course.

>>56381777
trips confirms.

>>56381777
that isn't Unity. Unity has a dock on the left side of the screen, not on the bottom.

>>56381777
>using chrome with linux

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>>56378881
>What is your favorite desktop environment?
xfce
>Why?
It's not bloatware trash like KDE or Gnome.

>>56381802
I have the default dock hidden and installed plank for main use.
I also replaced the usual unity search with a modified dmeny dealio, it looks and works much better.
I basically tried to work around the shit parts of the DE and keep the good bits.

>>56381812
REE I wish I didn't have to but I keep it solely for Netflix.

>>56378881
i prefer a window manager, i like openbox, simple and clean, handles window placement and framework nicely, and it has no toolbar, just a right-click menu to do it all, i dont need a fancy desktop environment to run a few apps in a GUI

>>56381835
>he can't afford a modern computer
>has to buy second hand computers and use "light" os because poor

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Honestly, with the updates they made in 10.11 I really dig aqua. No top menu bar + no dock = really really good looking desktop.

I use geektool kinda like conky to show some info, usually just time and date though, laptop doesn't hiccup enough to warrant having to watch cpu/ram usage all the time.

>>56378881
I think it'd be MATE or LXDE, tough i prefer using only a WM tbqh fäm

>>56381802
>that isn't Unity. Unity has a dock on the left side of the screen, not on the bottom.
If only there were a kind of OS that gave users choice.

>>56381969
>I choose my OS by how I can rice it.
You made me miss being 13, anon.

>>56381969
There is. With Linux, you can choose your desktop environment.

>that isn't Unity.

>>56378881
>de

import XMonad
import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog
import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks
import XMonad.Util.Run(spawnPipe)
import XMonad.Util.EZConfig(additionalKeys)
import System.IO
myManageHook = composeAll
    [ title =? "File Operation Progress"    --> doFloat
    ]
main = do
    xmproc <- spawnPipe "/usr/bin/xmobar"
    xmobar2 <- spawn "/usr/bin/xmobar /home/asdf/.xmobarrc2"
    xmonad $ defaultConfig
        { manageHook = manageDocks <+> myManageHook
                        <+> manageHook defaultConfig
        , layoutHook = avoidStruts  $  layoutHook defaultConfig
        , normalBorderColor = myNormalBorderColor
        , focusedBorderColor = myFocusedBorderColor
        , terminal = myTerminal
        , workspaces = myWorkspaces
        , logHook = dynamicLogWithPP xmobarPP
                        { ppOutput = hPutStrLn xmproc
                        , ppTitle = xmobarColor "#e8d174" "". shorten 100
                        , ppCurrent = xmobarColor "#9ed670" "#232323"
                        , ppSep = xmobarColor "#ff9900" "" " ="
                        , ppHiddenNoWindows = \w -> xmobarColor "#4d7358" "" ("" ++ w ++ "")
                        , ppHidden = \w -> xmobarColor "#d64d4d" "" ("" ++ w ++ "")
                        , ppLayout = \x -> case x of
                                            "Tall" -> "t"
                                            "Mirror Tall" -> "m"
                                            "Full" -> "f"
                        }
        , modMask = mod4Mask
        } `additionalKeys`
        [ ((mod4Mask, xK_p), spawn "dmenu_run -fn -*-terminus-*-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*")
        , ((shiftMask, xK_Print), spawn "sleep 0.2; scrot -u poop.png")
        , ((0, xK_Print), spawn "scrot poop.png")
        ]
myNormalBorderColor = "#232323"
myFocusedBorderColor = "#666666"
myTerminal = "xfce4-terminal"
myWorkspaces = ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "min"]

MATE.

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>>56381777
>>56381840

To follow up here's what i've done with dmenu

>>56381415
>replying to bait

>>56382074
literally no one cares

>>56379316
not doing a clean install of windows after every build update

>>56382165
Ouch, why are you so buttmad?
If no-one cares why do you care if I post it?

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Why use a full DE when you can just use the parts you like?

>>56381415
I think he meant cinnamon

>>56382216
Because some of us don't have autism

>>56382241
I also don't have autism but just choosing a window manager then using programs you like seems way easier than navigating a full DE

>>56382216
weeb

>>56382271
>weeb
On what grounds do you base this claim?

GTK Cinnamon

>>56382256
fag who said you have autism is mad cause he doesn't know how to do that since he has autism

Plasma.
>waaaaaa bloat too heavy waaaaa
Using on a fucking 7 year old PC with a shit processor and it runs perfectly. You kids with your $4000 megaultraPCs have no excuse. Oh wait, I forgot you all have 2001 256MB Dells your mommy gave you after she got her new PC.

>>56382303
>people should complain about boot onoy when its too obvious that it affects performance

That's not how it works.

>>56382437
>boot
>onoy

I meant bloat and only

>>56378881
awesome wm so I can shitpost in desktop threads.

>>56382437
>people should complain about boot onoy
>boot onoy
It's like I've stumbled into a universe where people speak gibberish every few words.

Oh wait, that's this universe with the youngfuck Dumbest Generation. It's either them being dumb or some fucking shitphone malfunction (please, get a fucking real computer with a real keyboard).

>>56382470
>can't make an argument
>better complain about typos!

It's like I'm in 2005

>>56382470
You should try learning German, if your triggered by a mere single character mistype.

>>56382470
Hi, you may have confused, reddit is the other way.

>>56382524
Mate, you seen to be missing some capitalizations and punctuation.

>>56382524
>typos
I don't complain about typos. I complain about gibberish I could not possibly reply to intelligently because I HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO SAY.

Idiot children.

>>56382603
m8 u s33m t0 h4v3 c0nfus3d yr "m" with n "n".

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Can't beat the HUD and god tier font rendering.

>>56378881
XFCE

>pros
Because Comfy as fuck, just works, responsive, XDG compliant, gtk2 is faster than Qt5 or Gtk3 can zoom into desktop (alt + mousewheel), modularity friendly (you can literally just run

xfdesktop &
xfwm4 &
thunar --daemon &
# your friendly polkit daemon
nm-applet &
# your friendly dockbar/panel program
# your friendly ALSA or PulseAudio frontend

and have complete functionality of what you'd expect in a DE and just work your way up)
Core runs with about 90 MB (xfce4-session with xfdesktop + xfwm4 + thunar --daemon). XFWM can emulate tiling by windowsnapping (fixed grid of 2x2 or 1x2 or 2x1). I use SkippyXD with #! hotcorners and Synapse, and this is comfy and sweet as fuck.


>"bad" but really don't care
Screen tearing happens, say about 1 or 3 times a week, but you can just fix it by moving around your window. You can also use whatever wm you want like Compiz or i3. Gtk2 will be deprecated soon, but xfce4 devs have started porting to gtk3 so I guess it doesn't matter that much to me.

>>56382620
Nah, you're complaining about typos, either that or you have a very shitty way to express yourself.

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>>56382620
>onoy
>only

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>>56382632
You probably haven't tried infinality, still Ubuntu is good enough if you don't really care that much.

>>56378881
>DE
StumpWM

>Why?
Because emacs all the things

>>56382722
I sure hope you aren't trying to pass that blurry garbage off as good

>>56382722
Looks like blurry garbage.

>>56382722
>>56382766
I take it back its way worse than just being blurry, your monospace font is completely and utterly FUCKED and unreadable.

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>>56381952
Got me playing with Geektool again...this is the output of the status things I have. They're in different groups so I can turn them on/off at will because the status ones suck battery for some reason.

>>56382681
>"people should complain about boot only"
>in response to a post about plasma being heavy
Sigh. You know, it's time all of you kids just told your mommies that you're visiting an evil website that needs to be blocked, let her block 4chan, and let you fucking grow up before you get back on. You're obviously too young and stupid to be here.

>>56382778
Clean your screen, you fucking weeb.

>>56382781
>macfags in charge of conky
>macfags in charge of dark theme
oh my god, this is why desktop threads need to come back so travesties like this can be expunged before they reach critical mass

>>56382804
non-retard here, I was able to figure out what boot onoy meant after 1 or 2 re-reads, but my confidence level that I was correct was admittedly not 100%.

In the future, boot onoy posters should be more careful when typing up their posts.

>>56382841
>needing 2 re-reads to figure out that shit
>non retard

>>56378881
XFCE with Compiz Reloaded.

>>56382816
I could smear bacon grease on my screen and still be able to read my fonts more easily than yours.

>>56382841
>namefag
>non-retard

>>56382074
Is that possible using only dmenurc, or did you actually forked dmenu?

>>56382722
what the fuck is up with your fonts

>>56382303
Hi. I'm new to Linux. I'm using Linux Mint, but I want to try something else.

What distro does Plasma come with natively?

>>56381952
What desktop is that?

>>56383011
macOS 10.11

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>>56382925
You should try to be more constructive. I care about your opinion, but if you think that because you've been a tripfag for years you can be entitled you with knowledge or understanding you're just deceiving yourself. While being a tripfag I bet is a symbol for your need to be (unnecessary) highlighted in an anonymous board, by your arrogance and condescence you exhibit low emotional intelligence and acting wrong to your objectives, thus in the best case you probably don't get that much appreciation from other people and even worst you're plainly rejected.

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>>56382971
Probably fucked up compression/quality parameters in scrot.

>>56383068
your fonts + rendering are garbo
start over again
your desktop sucks too

>>56379230
this and this

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Linux mint

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h h-hello i use openbox wm this is my desktop

>>56382936
It's forked, a friend of mine has been working on it.
You can do essentially exactly the same thing with Rofi and Compton though.

>>56382925
Sure thing my weeb friend, sure thing.

>>56383102
>(You)

>>56382778
>>56383075
>>56382762
It's sad that you don't like it, but I guess that's why I'm not a designer. I just need something functional to work and I find plain i3 works for me. I guess I'll try to improve; my main concern is not to impress anybody with my desktop, but with what work I can get done on/with it.

With all due respect to this community, you're the cancer that is paradoxically frustrating the consumer market making Linux an outcast OS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2efSysPvy8

>>56383102
post feet in stockings

>>56383193
>With all due respect to this community, you're the cancer that is paradoxically frustrating the consumer market making Linux an outcast OS.

lol fuck off moron

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What is the difference between a Linux distribution and a Desktop Environment?

How can a new Linux user distinguish a difference between the different distributions if they all come with different Desktops?

>>56383193
Pretty sure the exact reason normies don't use linux is because they think it looks like ass.

>>56382632
puta :)

>>56378881
>what
dwm
>why
dmenu
staticly compiled
simple keyboard bindings
dmenu

>>56383228
yet there's people like us who strive to make our OS interfaces as eye candy as possible, proving that linux looks like ass is wrong

>>56383240
puto el que lo lea :^)

KDE
* built on superior Qt technology
* powerful and customizable to no limit
* doesn't assume you're a dumb tablet user
* has thumbnails in its file picker

KDE
It isn't difficult to bring down the size to a reasonable level - just turn off unnecessary visual effects.
Dolphin, Ark, and having alt+space for the launcher all out of the box, it's like they knew exactly what I wanted.

Works great in Neon.

theory: only idiots would use a de instead of a wm

xfce
mate is nice too

kde and gnome just disgust me

>>56383223
just think of a desktop environment kind of like a windows theme

it's sort of like a more complicated version of that. you have to try some out to see which one you like the most. if you're coming from windows you'll probably like mate or cinnamon because it's kind of similar

>>56383193
Fuck off. Your font rendering is objectively garbage and you're being kindly informed of that fact

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>>56383223
>>56382995
openSUSE Leap 42.1 distribution, KDE Plasma 5 Desktop environment.

>thank me later

>>56383678
Has Plasma 5 incorporated a HUD yet? (i.e. hold down alt key and look at context menus)

>>56383457
>>56383467
KDE is shit
>bloated as fuck
>unstable, crashes everywhere
>breeze looks like shit and there's no good themes for plasma and Qt because KDE fags have shit taste and think breeze is enough
>poor resource usage. I mean, just because I have the hardware doesn't mean it's fine to let plasma memory leaking or consuming that much CPU time
>KWin is a buggy mess

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Obviously the best. :^)

>>56383753
>plasma memory leaking
Your opinion of KDE is antiquated. They have ironed out many of the problems you have listed.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344879
>resolved fixed

>>56383820

That is one patrician playlist my friend.

>>56383820
>>56383874

lonely samefag detected

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>>56383887

>>56383901
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug/
>nice try fagot

>>56383913
>what is ⌘ + Shift + 4

>>56383901
That font rendering looks fuzzy to me for some reason.

>>56378881
Used to be xfce, but for some odd reason the taskbar likes to glitch out its icons with no rhyme or reason.

Currently, it's gnome. Simple design like openbox but with the larger bells and whistles just behind view and easy to get to. Love it.

>>56383913
lol

>>56383753
TL;DR: "I haven't checked out KDE in quite a while."

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>>56383967
>TL;DR: "I haven't checked out KDE in quite a while."

"Yep... still shit."

>>56384002
you seemed biased. it's uncommon for men to base their decisions on their emotions.

>>56383940
time to get a new pair of glasses

>>56383940
okay mr detective

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>>56384033
I know that this is a shitposting thread now, but that doesn't excuse rudeness.

>>56384017
>it's uncommon for men to base their decisions on their emotions.

Leaving the mental compass on hate hasn't failed to pay off yet.

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>>56379351
this +
>dat minimalism

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>>56384228

>>56384281
wtf i hate that guy for acting like he wants grrrrrr!
if IEVER see someone with a portable record player im going to kick THEIR FUCKING ASSS

>>56384228
this looks like shit
also, your raleigh is showing

>>56384281
he's cosplaying Quadrilateral Cowboy s'all

>>56384281
>Spinning vinyl in public on a portable player
Those poor LPs

>>56381802
You realise you can move the dock right?