What desktop environment do you use and why isn't it GNOME?

MATE because I miss Gnome 2.

>>59241878
I dont use GNOME because I dont have a tablet.
I generally dont use a DE but if I would, then probably xfce

KDE

How do you people live without Dolphin is beyond me...

XFCE:

>lightweight
>customizable
>infinite possibilities
>only as bloated as you want it to be

why would anyone use any other DE?

>>59242143
Nemo is quite good. But yeah, dolphin is God-tier.

>>59241878
Unity just works well. Gnome is unusual, KDE is ugly.

>>59242143
spacefm is breddy gud

>>59242177
ugly out of the box

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I3, I tested every desktop environment out there and a tiling windows make me more productive in terms of automation, chose i3 at random between the othres tilling windows managers, nothing specialy from the other's, have the same qualities.

>>59242143
this

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>>59241878
Emacs.

...cheating a little bit by using LXDE as a bootstrap so I dont have to deal with a .xinitrc, but comfy :^)

>>59242366
This is what autism looks like in physical form

>>59242177
Looks like ass out of the box and it being lightweight doesn't matter as long as you're using a PC that's from this decade

>>59241878
Unity on laptop and KDE on desktop.

Lxde, because I don't care about aesthetics, so may as well be lightweight.

openbox

I'm pretty pleased with the bunsenlabs defaults by and large

I just bring over the rc.xml and conky configs that I've been using forever, pick a nice, unbusy wallpaper and I'm done.

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>>59242304
i3 is nice, have you tried other tiling managers in the past?, I havnt, probably wont know, cause took me a while to learn how to edit everything and memorize keystrokes, but curios what else people use

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>>59242385
thank you anon <3

>>59242366
Excuseme ?. Emacs ?. Emac's if not a WindowManager/DesktopEnviroment, is a text editor, you must study the difference bettwen the two

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>>59242426
>spacemacs

Cinnamon > XFCE > KDE > LXDE > MATE > GNOME

>>59242438
t. i've never used emacs

>>59242448
GNOME>KDE>MATE>LXDE>XFCE>>>>>>Dogshit>>>>>Cinnamon
FTFY.

GNOME & i3 depending on my mood.

>>59241878
MATE or KDE.

Because if I wanted a dock I'd buy a Mac...

>>59242424
I try spectrwm/awesome, every tilling windows manager have the same features, just pick one.

Yes the learn curve, is a pain in the ass, but when you mastered, you feel strange in a GNOME/KDE environment.

>>59242177
No high dpi scaling

>>59242424
http://dotshare.it/, some resources is you wanna go deep

Tiling window managers are only okay for laptops, they're a meme on desktops.

>>59242543
>Tiling window managers are only okay for laptops, they're a meme on desktops.
Someone gave the baby a bottle, please.
Do you realize the impact of useless of what you trying to expose ?

>>59242177
dubs confirm


>>59242231
>>59242398
>looks bad out of the box
good thing that in 30 minutes you can make it look like whatever the hell you like

>>59242579
What if GNOME is what I want it to look like?

>>59242438
No. Emacs is not a text editor.

Its a lisp environment with extensions and an interface that is well suited for editing text. Its also a complete host environment for applications written in its own dialect of lisp.

Emacs is essentially an operating system. A modern day lisp machine, so to speak. Its like living in a REPL. All the built in functionality and variables are well documented, its incredibly satisfying to hack at, and is infinitely extensible with a good standard library to boot.

EXWM is an X11 window manager that embeds X11 windows into its buffer management system. All the stuff that usually gets read out of an i3/whateverwm dotfile can be controlled using a complete programming language. Its a good feeling and ive used it to make a keybinding system that works really well for me. Multitasking with it is a breeze.

Combing that with evil mode makes for an incredibly comfortable programming environment. Though, if im just shitposting or watching videos and shit, I sometimes use KDE instead.

>>59242441
it works. once you have a good grasp at elisp, its easy to sand down the rough edges and bloat spacemacs adds while taking advantage of what it gives you. Tons of sane keybindings, including ones that change dynamically per major mode with built in macros that are easy to extend it with. Sure you can do it in vanilla, but its tedious and I got really sick of it.

>>59241878
It's gnome. Gnome shell is the best DE

>>59242592
then you install gnome. but saying that something highly and easily customizable looks bad out of the box is a bad point

Lumina

>>59242366
>using the smiley with a carat nose

>>59241878
Coming from a Mac, I guess dealing with Gnome was okay, as a first step in using LiGNUx on my mbp. But using Gnome still feels a lot like wearing a pair of wet shorts with just a little bit of sand left after going to the beach. There was just always something bothering me, mo matter how hard I tried to brush the sand away.

I recently switched to KDE, and I have never felt as comfy using a computer. This is smoother and comfier than OSX ever was, I am in love.

xfce because i dont need flashy bs

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>>59242825
xfce. fast, smooth xfce

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>>59243493
>anything GTK
>fast

>>59242645
woah dude, I really want to get on your level
>>59243493
>current year
>listening a classic album in lossy compression

>>59242811
>KDE
>I recently switched to KDE, and I have never felt as comfy using a computer. This is smoother and comfier than OSX ever was, I am in love.
Welp, Linux didn't cure your gayness, but welcome aboard, errr... stranger.

>>59242366
>...cheating a little bit by using LXDE as a bootstrap so I dont have to deal with a .xinitrc, but comfy :^)
...what? are you retarded? how is .xinitrc a pain to deal with?

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>>59243759
don't really know what you mean by 'lossy' compression, but if it means what I think it means, I 've only got Dirt LP

I use Windows 7 and have never heard of gnome.

>>59243824
>using the smiley with a carat nose

>>59243835
dirt is GOAT, but you should probably go back to r/music

>>59242177
this

I run xfce and cinnamon on my laptop, I used gnome for a little bit but it was ass to actually try and do work with. Slow, ugly, and pointless since I wasn't using it with a touchscreen.

I use Unity. I'm used to it and I like it. Never understood what people disliked about it. You can disable the web and amazon searches.

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Plasma 5. Pic related is why it isn't GNOME.

>>59244290
I seriously don't get why people bitch about this.
Either rename your files or drag and drop from a file manager or better yet, a proper image browser like gthumb.

>>59242366
>autism.png
How do you solve the captcha?

>>59244290
What shit comic sans font is that anon?

>>59241878

KDE

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>>59243824
its really not that bad, honestly. Though I appreciate that LXDE has a settings suite that lets me set my gtk theme, font settings, and other little shit like that. It doesnt add any overhead worth worrying about, and i disable the pcmanfm and lxpanel shit.

>>59244470
i dont. I have a key that switches to my browser and jumps to the post, so sadly i cant compose from emacs but at least I can browse from it.

Maybe i could get legacy captcha to work if I really hacked at it but i dont care that much.

>>59241878
Cinnamon > *

I use ratpoison and not gnome because gnome is way more of a headache than most other things I have tried and ratpoison is the least of a headache

>>59242304
Ugly.

>>59242518
This. I would be using XFCE but it looks like shit on my laptop's hidpi screen

KDE5

t. not an autist

>>59242645
>evil mode
So you decided that Emacs is a good operating system and the only thing missing is a decent text editor. That's amazing.

>>59242143
this

>>59242480
Salty GNOME dev detected

>>59241878
I have gnome 3.22
But I only have 1giga of ram
T.T Sun Sun d'un

>>59241878
I use mate because I'm not retarded

>>59242177
>>59241878
>>59242081
Some people enjoy not having screen tearing out of the box and having a working file picker.

>>59243759
Since we can't hear the difference between FLAC and 320 kbps MP3s, I'd object to using a CLI audio player.

>>59244290
>>59244431
>>59247146
Glib2 patch exists you fucking retards

>>59247880
Good luck recompiling without breaking your OS.

>>59247902
Never happened. Not once

>>59248038
Sure. That convinced me.

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>desktop
Openbox + tint2
>laptop
i3

Cinnamon

I use a windows 10 VM over VGA passthrough as desktop, though I prefer KDE in Linux. I want to compile a few KDE programs for Windows.

>>59242231
>>59242398
>ugly out of the box

Get a mac you fucking casuals.

>>59247146
>screen tearing
Hey it's this meme again. You're about 10 years late mate.

>>59248370
>if you don't want to spend an entire day making it look not like shit you should buy a mac
just use cinnamon or KDE5

>>59245230
Don't really care. It's all about finish the job.
Somethings you don't know, even your sentences don't have a valid argument on why my desktop is ugly. Please elaborate on that.

>>59242645
:), :). I can't argue with you on, your brain is so deep in a imaginary world, that is better for us, to leave you there.

>>59242448
Pretty much this.

>>59247902
>recompiling
There is a binary for that™

>>59241878
Lumina, and because GNOME is a piece of shit post GNOME 2.

>>59252803
LXQt, because Lumina is a piece of shit from the start.

>>59241878
KDE Plasma 5

>>59241878

>GNOME
>A FUCKING APP DRAWER

Worst interface since android.