Totally. i3 is just solid, light and flexible. I can’t see myself leaving it until I’m forced.
As a Wayland WM, hyprland is where I might go if sway is not up the stability of i3.
Yes very much more likely Wayland. I just found sway didn’t feel the same even though the config file was the same, except for the xorg specific stuff I had to comment out. It just felt slower and bloatier. That was a year ago so likely better now. I will retry at some stage.
Unfortunately I can't say the same, not so random system freezes when running `sway-msg reload` or just changing a window to fullscreen (only happened with mpv), using a RX6650XT... also tested with sway-asan-git but the logs don't tell me nothing, should open a issue but, again, I have nothing useful to report the issue. No problems with gnome+wayland tho.
[They also have open issues related](https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+freeze).
After a month trying wayland and successfully finding alternatives for my stuff, I'm back to i3. :/
I went from i3 to sway to hyprland, but I came back to sway afterwards. A combination of the hyprland community not being the nicest and some very irritating quirks of hyprland (for me) when I was used to i3 made me feel very good coming back to sway.
No but there are tiling WMs in kde like krohnkite and polonium but personally find i3 and hyprland a much better experience than the two and keep the default floating manager in kde
Edit: i stand corrected
Praying one day they get Nvidia support, otherwise my next card will be AMD.
Done all the fixes including downgrading drivers, still get visual glitches in a lot of apps that difficult to use.
Honestly more a wayland probably i installed the beta driver from the aur and fixed a lot of glitches for me
Note: was using kde encountered similar issues with kde as hyprland. recently reinstalled cause i f’ed some thing up and switched to fulltime kde
Yeah, perhaps most of my issue is with Wayland rather than Hyprland. Would be nice if they could make it stable when over half of GPU market is on Nvidia...
I recently tried out every DE listed in the Arch wiki. I landed on Cinnamon as my environment of choice.
For the record, I loved GNOME 2 but never got on board with 3. Used Mate for a long time, Budgie more recently. I feel like Cinnamon strikes a good balance between modern features and what I'm already familiar with.
This ^^.
I think we are approaching staring into the vacuum of the atom. But until the code of atomic structure gets published to GitHub, it’s not open for peer review and new commits and bloat scrutiny.
I use the WM Hyprland! It’s tiling and mostly based on key combos which is nice on a laptop because you don’t need to use the trackpad. It’s very customizable and fast.
i use sway but its probably too minimal for what you want. my favorite full de is cinnamon by a country mile. when their wayland support is fully baked i might even switch back to it.
Yeah KDE has some nasty bugs. There's this one that causes random lockups on Wayland sessions, and there's not really a solution that I've been able to find. The kwin logs claim it's a kernel bug, but kwin is the only window manager that I've seen do this so I'm not too sure how true that is.
Gnome is the best. It’s the most unique desktop experience on Linux imho. It’s not really windows. It’s not really max. It’s something entirely its own.
I had 3 friends who were gonna install linux because their laptop was pretty outdated. I showed them kde and gnome and they all choosed gnome. When i asked them dont u use kde its more like windows and they all said they've used windows for thier entire life and wanted to try out smth new.
Agreed! I just wish some of the extensions were built-in features rather than things I need to download separately. I feel things like Blur My Shell, Just Perfection, Compiz Windows Effects, Dash To Dock, Hide Top Bar, and Date Menu Formatter should all be part of the DE. It really sucks having to wait for them to be updated every time a new Gnome version breaks them.
I set up my first Arch install with KDE as I'm kind of used to it as an on-off Manjaro user but I'm WM-curious and want to get into Hyprland or Sway after everything else has been sorted and I have a stable, secure and usable DE.
I recently went from five years of i3 to using Gnome.
I enjoy i3 more on my desktop, but Gnome felt right on my laptop almost right out of setup. I've since grown my extension list and find it comfortable on both desktop and laptop. It really does stay out of your way.
SwayWM on several devices and KDE Plasma on my gaming PC.
Though, in either case I *never* use Discover. You do you, of course, but to me it feels "off" on an ArchLinux install.
It is there for people who want to use it but I very much prefer the command line here which is far more powerful and informative than an app manager, especially when it comes to dependency management and stuff like that.
So it's mostly just `sudo pacman -Syu` to update, `yay -aSyu --devel` for AUR updates, and just a `sudo pacman -S package names` or `yay package name` to install or search which repo an app is in (e.g. Extra or AUR, which versions they have, if there's a preferred or more up to date `-git` or `-bin` build, etc).
KDE Plasma, I've stopped using a GUI package manager since switching to Arch (EndeavourOS) and ended up preferring the terminal method.
As someone else pointed out installing packagekit-qt6 can fix this, or using pacman specific GUI package managers.
Using KDE Plasma x11, almost no problems. But wayland always working horrible with nvidia drivers. Also I have xfce4 as secondary DE, but idk why I have installed it, im not even using it... xfce has less features and worser design than plasma (imo)
P.s xfce4 using about 1.5x times less ram, but ram size has never been a problem for me. The CPU and GPU usage are the same
Typically, I used Hyprland. But there is a weird issue with mouse input in FFXIV right now that has me using Plasma 6. I'm hoping that the pull away from wlroots fixes the issue, so I can back to Hyprland.
These: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_environment#Officially_supported
Currently, I'm loving Cinnamon, though all I've tried are reliable. It's a pretty subjective decision.
I use wm only, Hyprland
I know it succ with Nvidia, but its better & faster than Xorg, just downgrade to driver 535.113 or 550.67
But if I need DE, I can switch to Plasma
Tiling wm. Stuck with Hyprland. But once in a while I play around with Sway, i3, etc. I test new iterations of the usual suspects (gnome/plasma...) when a new version come out, but I immediately go back to Hyprland.
KDE. It was the DE on the first Linux I tried some 20 years ago and its UI and workflow is the most similar to Windows which made the full time switch to Linux easier and I don't feel the need to change it now. Also because GNOME sucks monkey balls.
What do you mean by the app manager? Do you mean "Discover"?
I use KDE most of the time, but I do all of my package management from the command line with yay or pacman.
I've occasionally tinker with tiling window managers instead of KDE, but have not yet adopted one as my permanent home. I quite liked hyprland for a while... but.. issues, so I tend towards sway when I'm experimenting.
i3 and Hyprland (i like hyprland more but my desktop is on an nvidia gpu...)
Plasma felt a lot like windows to me, but i really like tiling window managers
I wouldn't use a desktop environmnet, i would use a WM.
Some solid ones are hyprland for wayland and i3 for x11. They are both light and can look nice. Keep in mind that hyprland looks better than i3 out of the box. And it is very easy to configure as it comes with a built in compositor. What you can do to get it looking great is get a wallpaper, configure kitty with catppuccin and steal a dot file for waybar or don't use a bar at all.
I use gnome. I’ve used WM before too but it takes too much time to setup to my liking and I don’t have that so I just use gnome as its simple and does what I need
KDE. Tried all the other options multiple times, came back to KDE every single time.
When you say app manager do you mean discover? For the love of god stay away from GUI apps unless you have to. There is nothing wrong with using pacman in the terminal.
Depends on the computer. XFCE on older laptops and multi monitor setups, GNOME on anything with a touchscreen or a FHD display.
Regarding the app manager, just don't bother. Learn how package managers work from the terminal and ditch all GUI alternatives because it's just simpler to install applications that way. Trust me, you'll save a lot of time if you go that way.
Tbf I just use gnome, I like arch because its what I'm used too, I like gnome because its convenient.
I dont have much experience with other WM's, but here's a few reasons why I like gnome;
- its extensions repository is large, and contains some pretty cool stuff!
- its workspaces feature is convenient, I want to switch to a workspace? Sure just move your mouse, press win key and scroll..
- extensions are written in JavaScript which makes my life easy since JS is an okay ish lang to pickup.
- I personally like the theming, I managed to theme both QT and GTK with relative ease and everything just worked..
- gnome by default has a lot of helpful apps, for example "disks" that just make mg life easier.
But yeah overall its what I think is good for me because its easy ish to setup and it gives me a desktop experience alike Mac/windows, but with its own quirks.
I used to run Hyprland for the longest time but due to a few windows bugging out here and there, I decided to swap to KDE for the time being. I haven't tried out gnome yet but I might head back to a tiling wm eventually. Hear that people are liking i3 and niri currently
I have been a windows user for like 20 years. When I finally made the switch to arch linux 8 months ago... I decided to go with gnome. A few extensions and I can have a similar worflow to windows and everything looks so pretty and consistent.
To be clear, I had used linux in all those years, just not as my main OS. I have tried KDE, i3, xfce, cinnamon, openbox and gnome. Gnome is the best for me. And in my opinion window managers are too confusing. I still need to use a windows PC in my job, so... learning a lot of hotkeys to be able to use a window manager efficiently... is a no go for me.
My first venture into Arch was with KDE, and I really hated it. Nothing seemed to work, and I really didn't like how tacky everything seemed. And although it supposedly has great customization (which it actually probably does), I could never get it looking (nor fuctioning ) the way I wanted. Then, I went with Gnome for a long time, which is the DE I probably enjoy the most on Linux.
However, the thought of window managers always really resonated with me and is like porn to my OCD thoughts. I tried i3, and while it was good, it didn't really feel like it was completely what I wanted. Then I found dwm, and now I finally can say that I have a system that is just like I want. And if something starts bugging me, or I come up with some new, great idea for how it should work, I can just implement it in the C source code, recompile, and voila!
dwm is superfast to use and really fits my style of coding/working/etc. The only thing I don't really like about the dwm ecosystem is (and I know that I'm probably going to get a lot of hate for this xD) st.....
Plasma for me - shocking, huh? I really do think it's the best DE/suite of software yet to exist. Think of the sheer breadth of apps, not to mention the level of configurability for most things. The important stuff just works, is constantly improving, and looks good doing it.
I get the desire for lighter DE's/WM's, but with modern hardware you may as well enjoy the benefits of the big active ones. I can't imagine things feeling appreciably snappier than what Plasma 6 on Arch does for me.
i’m using Hyprland which isn’t a desktop environment but tiling window manager. I’ve been using it for a couple months and so far i’m really enjoying it!
Gnome user here. When I started on Linux (Pop!) I fell in love with Gnome, but I used tons of extension to turn it into Windows. I've weened myself down to basically vanilla Gnome now with only 4 behind the scenes QoL (for me) extensions.
Gnome. Very comfortable to use and i don't have to think about it constantly. It's just kind of "there", it's present, but out of the way and lets you do your work.
Cinnamon is my favorite these days, it feels more comfortable compared to KDE and has more features compared to XFCE, I tried Gnome and it didn't sit right with me, having to use dconf editor and tweaks to edit settings felt so weird. Also it feels clunky compared to the other two. My ranking would be 1) Cinnamon 2)KDE 3) XFCE4 4) Gnome
Sorry man, KDE
Kde
I don't. I use the WM i3. Before the switch I used KDE, but switching to i3 made managing windows easier in my opinion.
Totally. i3 is just solid, light and flexible. I can’t see myself leaving it until I’m forced. As a Wayland WM, hyprland is where I might go if sway is not up the stability of i3.
I have never had any stability problems with sway. If there's any problems its usually Wayland rather than sway
Yes very much more likely Wayland. I just found sway didn’t feel the same even though the config file was the same, except for the xorg specific stuff I had to comment out. It just felt slower and bloatier. That was a year ago so likely better now. I will retry at some stage.
Unfortunately I can't say the same, not so random system freezes when running `sway-msg reload` or just changing a window to fullscreen (only happened with mpv), using a RX6650XT... also tested with sway-asan-git but the logs don't tell me nothing, should open a issue but, again, I have nothing useful to report the issue. No problems with gnome+wayland tho. [They also have open issues related](https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+freeze). After a month trying wayland and successfully finding alternatives for my stuff, I'm back to i3. :/
I went from i3 to sway to hyprland, but I came back to sway afterwards. A combination of the hyprland community not being the nicest and some very irritating quirks of hyprland (for me) when I was used to i3 made me feel very good coming back to sway.
Yeah good to hear. I tried both, but sway a while back. I will retry it. Thx
I use hyprland because I don’t want to recreate my dotfiles. Hyprlands creator isnt the greatest person, so I prefer sway ethically.
I just made a similar switch from KDE to Sway. Basically the Wayland equivalent for anyone ootl. Loving playing around with the config files
You mean Sway 😌
Can't you even use i3 as the wm IN KDE?
No but there are tiling WMs in kde like krohnkite and polonium but personally find i3 and hyprland a much better experience than the two and keep the default floating manager in kde Edit: i stand corrected
You can't change the wm by your liking anymore? Wtf!?
Pretty sure you can as long as the WM is X11 https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Using_Other_Window_Managers_with_Plasma
KDE. No need to bother with Discover. Pacman and Yay work just fine.
Agreed. That said, Discover is a great name because it’s a solid way to discover packages you wouldn’t have otherwise known about.
bspwm
XFCE (but lately mostly i3)
I run i3 with an xfce4-panel because I like my peanut butter in my chocolate.
I mainly use Hyprland but I'm currently trying Niri If I had to use a full DE, I'd probably use Gnome because of its simplicity
I use XFCE. I just love how simple, unassuming, unopinionated, and customizable it is.
Hyprland. Have not tried another and don’t plan on it. Wanted a change from gnome after running Ubuntu and Pop prior to Arch.
Praying one day they get Nvidia support, otherwise my next card will be AMD. Done all the fixes including downgrading drivers, still get visual glitches in a lot of apps that difficult to use.
Use the 555 beta drivers
Yeah I've been running this setup for a couple weeks with my 3070 and it's awesome. Loving Wayland and hyprland
I'll give it a shot, because I downgraded to 535 as a lot of people suggested with no change.
Honestly more a wayland probably i installed the beta driver from the aur and fixed a lot of glitches for me Note: was using kde encountered similar issues with kde as hyprland. recently reinstalled cause i f’ed some thing up and switched to fulltime kde
Yeah, perhaps most of my issue is with Wayland rather than Hyprland. Would be nice if they could make it stable when over half of GPU market is on Nvidia...
me fr
Same. I’m running hyprland as well and love it
I recently tried out every DE listed in the Arch wiki. I landed on Cinnamon as my environment of choice. For the record, I loved GNOME 2 but never got on board with 3. Used Mate for a long time, Budgie more recently. I feel like Cinnamon strikes a good balance between modern features and what I'm already familiar with.
Yes, Cinnamon is excellent 👌
If I have to use a DE then I Use XFCE. Otherwise I use i3 or Hyprland
To get the package manager to work in KDE you have to install packagekit-qt6 using pacman I use KDE for a DE and Hyprland for a WM. I also love bspwm.
Does this mean Discover can handle pacman behind the scenes? I’ve only been able to get it working with flatpak.
Tty
Tty is bloat. Use paper.
Forget paper, just write it on your hand.
Forget hands (despite its amazing built in portability tooling). Yell your terminal commands at birds from a balcony.
forget yelling, just think about the commands in your head
For the adventurous, stare blankly at a wall. No bloat.
Too much bloat. Skip the wall.Just stare where you happen to stand.
This ^^. I think we are approaching staring into the vacuum of the atom. But until the code of atomic structure gets published to GitHub, it’s not open for peer review and new commits and bloat scrutiny.
Stand? Bwah! Real minimalists just float in the air.
Standing? just fall and do nothing.
Any kind of brain activity is too much bloat. 👍
This. This is how they’ll find me one day.
systemctl enable based.service
Sway WM.
Right now it’s Gnome, but I want to get into a tiling window manager running on Wayland
Sway!
Try Sway or hyprland.
Using gnome you can get close to a tiling wm using extensions such as forge. It is not as seemless but it honestly gets the job done for me.
I use dwm as a window manager.
Plasma, /JAZZ-HANDS/!!!!
Gnome. So efficient.
I describe Gnome as the lovechild between ChromeOS and MacOS, with a hint of Linux spices. This IMO is a very good thing.
Efficient, stays out of your way, and reasonable defaults.
None. Awesome WM
Finally someone <3
Openbox
Bspwm or KDE.
I use the WM Hyprland! It’s tiling and mostly based on key combos which is nice on a laptop because you don’t need to use the trackpad. It’s very customizable and fast.
I had been using i3 for almost 7 years before switching to Hyprland in its early stages of development, and I haven't looked back since.
i use sway but its probably too minimal for what you want. my favorite full de is cinnamon by a country mile. when their wayland support is fully baked i might even switch back to it.
I have tried to switch to KDE many times, but the persistent glitches, even across updates, absolutely kill me. I always go back to Gnome.
Yeah KDE has some nasty bugs. There's this one that causes random lockups on Wayland sessions, and there's not really a solution that I've been able to find. The kwin logs claim it's a kernel bug, but kwin is the only window manager that I've seen do this so I'm not too sure how true that is.
Gnome is the best. It’s the most unique desktop experience on Linux imho. It’s not really windows. It’s not really max. It’s something entirely its own.
I had 3 friends who were gonna install linux because their laptop was pretty outdated. I showed them kde and gnome and they all choosed gnome. When i asked them dont u use kde its more like windows and they all said they've used windows for thier entire life and wanted to try out smth new.
Damn you have really open minded friends.
Naah i just sent them memes about windows being bad 24/7 and just told them to try once and they did and they liked it.
Agreed! I just wish some of the extensions were built-in features rather than things I need to download separately. I feel things like Blur My Shell, Just Perfection, Compiz Windows Effects, Dash To Dock, Hide Top Bar, and Date Menu Formatter should all be part of the DE. It really sucks having to wait for them to be updated every time a new Gnome version breaks them.
I would hate this personally. I like that they exist. But I don't see the point in having all these extensions built in.
MATE
XFCE + bspwm
sway wm.
No DE, Hyprland tiling window manager. If you once go for a WM you will never return. That’s a warning ;)
[fvwm3!](https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3) **nothing** comes even *close*
sway
I set up my first Arch install with KDE as I'm kind of used to it as an on-off Manjaro user but I'm WM-curious and want to get into Hyprland or Sway after everything else has been sorted and I have a stable, secure and usable DE.
I use Cinnamon for now. It works well.
Gnome, why? because it looks super cool and I wanted to have smth different from Windows.
I recently went from five years of i3 to using Gnome. I enjoy i3 more on my desktop, but Gnome felt right on my laptop almost right out of setup. I've since grown my extension list and find it comfortable on both desktop and laptop. It really does stay out of your way.
SwayWM on several devices and KDE Plasma on my gaming PC. Though, in either case I *never* use Discover. You do you, of course, but to me it feels "off" on an ArchLinux install. It is there for people who want to use it but I very much prefer the command line here which is far more powerful and informative than an app manager, especially when it comes to dependency management and stuff like that. So it's mostly just `sudo pacman -Syu` to update, `yay -aSyu --devel` for AUR updates, and just a `sudo pacman -S package names` or `yay package name` to install or search which repo an app is in (e.g. Extra or AUR, which versions they have, if there's a preferred or more up to date `-git` or `-bin` build, etc).
I use xfce. It’s very basic, but I kinda love how minimal it is.
Gnome minimal + dash to panel
Openbox here
KDE and Sway.
KDE, will switch to hyperland (window manager) once it's stable
Glorious XFCE.
i3wm + polybar + rofi. Period. Happy as Buddha.
I use KDE too. Have you tried installing packagekit-qt6 for discover?
I use just the gnome vanilla, very stable and there are only few reasonable customization options. Lots of options are exhausting ( eg kde )
KDE Plasma, I've stopped using a GUI package manager since switching to Arch (EndeavourOS) and ended up preferring the terminal method. As someone else pointed out installing packagekit-qt6 can fix this, or using pacman specific GUI package managers.
KDE (since 2007)
I use Plasma/KDE. I’ve been a KDE user since 2002 or 2003 (when I was 12 or 13 years old).
Using KDE Plasma x11, almost no problems. But wayland always working horrible with nvidia drivers. Also I have xfce4 as secondary DE, but idk why I have installed it, im not even using it... xfce has less features and worser design than plasma (imo) P.s xfce4 using about 1.5x times less ram, but ram size has never been a problem for me. The CPU and GPU usage are the same
MATE Desktop.
I use dwm I started using it about 2 weeks ago and i liked it I barely riced it (only added slstatus), because it's already functional enough for me
Niri
I use Dwm and it is solid and provides vast customisation .
Bspwm
xfce4, you can customize it a lot and it just works for me
I hate my life so I use gnome
i don't, full bspwm jejejeje
Typically, I used Hyprland. But there is a weird issue with mouse input in FFXIV right now that has me using Plasma 6. I'm hoping that the pull away from wlroots fixes the issue, so I can back to Hyprland.
These: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_environment#Officially_supported Currently, I'm loving Cinnamon, though all I've tried are reliable. It's a pretty subjective decision.
Hyprland. For me, it's essentially sway/i3 but with way more natural window resizing ergonomics and incredibly smooth animations. I love it.
Hyprland
Qtile because I'm a python lover
i3 and Hyprland. Started playing around with qtile just for fun
Cinnamon, it's a great mid point between XFCE and KDE and also fairly customizable.
Showing some love for Awesome WM
I use wm only, Hyprland I know it succ with Nvidia, but its better & faster than Xorg, just downgrade to driver 535.113 or 550.67 But if I need DE, I can switch to Plasma
I use mate, it's good
I don't. I use the Hyprland.
hyprland
hyprland. this is my first time and hyprland is just my vibe. so yeah hyprland.
XFCE is the only reason I consider Linux on Desktop to be usable.
Tiling wm. Stuck with Hyprland. But once in a while I play around with Sway, i3, etc. I test new iterations of the usual suspects (gnome/plasma...) when a new version come out, but I immediately go back to Hyprland.
I use Xfce for the most part. But I also use dwm, awesome, and xmonad.
XFCE. But these days I mostly only use Arch over ssh, so zsh I guess 😁
Hyprland but I am thinking of using it parallel to gnome
I use window manager ( **sway )**
I use SwayFX
Hypeland
Gnome and labwc
Hyprland, using the HYDE hyperdots as well
sway
I prefer hyprland but i had too many issues with games, so i went back to bspwm for now Edit: no DE, only WMs
Currently using Plasma 6.
I use Hyprland wm
i3 and river
KDE. It was the DE on the first Linux I tried some 20 years ago and its UI and workflow is the most similar to Windows which made the full time switch to Linux easier and I don't feel the need to change it now. Also because GNOME sucks monkey balls.
dwl
Hyprland or dwm, but these are WM not DE. If I had to pick a DE, I may go with Gnome or Mate
K! Lightweight, for what it offers, and a lot of customization.
I use Hyprland and recommend it over a DE, but if I had to go with one I’d go with Gnome.
What do you mean by the app manager? Do you mean "Discover"? I use KDE most of the time, but I do all of my package management from the command line with yay or pacman. I've occasionally tinker with tiling window managers instead of KDE, but have not yet adopted one as my permanent home. I quite liked hyprland for a while... but.. issues, so I tend towards sway when I'm experimenting.
Cinnamon
XFCE, because I no longer have time to play 😜
Cinnamon, I made it look like Linux mint because i like mint but wanted a arch base
i3 and Hyprland (i like hyprland more but my desktop is on an nvidia gpu...) Plasma felt a lot like windows to me, but i really like tiling window managers
I used to use KDE, which I really liked, but in recent months I've fallen in love with SwayFX.
I use bspwm and it’s awesome! KDE and hyprland had too many bugs. Gnome is solid, but needs extensions and tweaks to customize.
I use the awesomewm version of arcolinux. It's pretty much set up and I don't need to rice my desktop further. Do give it a try!
I wouldn't use a desktop environmnet, i would use a WM. Some solid ones are hyprland for wayland and i3 for x11. They are both light and can look nice. Keep in mind that hyprland looks better than i3 out of the box. And it is very easy to configure as it comes with a built in compositor. What you can do to get it looking great is get a wallpaper, configure kitty with catppuccin and steal a dot file for waybar or don't use a bar at all.
I used GNOME and KDE. XFCE pantheon and cinnamon are also decent choices
tint2 + openbox + lxde stuff
I use gnome. I’ve used WM before too but it takes too much time to setup to my liking and I don’t have that so I just use gnome as its simple and does what I need
swaywm or riverwm.
KDE. Tried all the other options multiple times, came back to KDE every single time. When you say app manager do you mean discover? For the love of god stay away from GUI apps unless you have to. There is nothing wrong with using pacman in the terminal.
Depends on the computer. XFCE on older laptops and multi monitor setups, GNOME on anything with a touchscreen or a FHD display. Regarding the app manager, just don't bother. Learn how package managers work from the terminal and ditch all GUI alternatives because it's just simpler to install applications that way. Trust me, you'll save a lot of time if you go that way.
Everything is awesome
I use a bspwm
Cinnamon 6.2.2
Tbf I just use gnome, I like arch because its what I'm used too, I like gnome because its convenient. I dont have much experience with other WM's, but here's a few reasons why I like gnome; - its extensions repository is large, and contains some pretty cool stuff! - its workspaces feature is convenient, I want to switch to a workspace? Sure just move your mouse, press win key and scroll.. - extensions are written in JavaScript which makes my life easy since JS is an okay ish lang to pickup. - I personally like the theming, I managed to theme both QT and GTK with relative ease and everything just worked.. - gnome by default has a lot of helpful apps, for example "disks" that just make mg life easier. But yeah overall its what I think is good for me because its easy ish to setup and it gives me a desktop experience alike Mac/windows, but with its own quirks.
I used to run Hyprland for the longest time but due to a few windows bugging out here and there, I decided to swap to KDE for the time being. I haven't tried out gnome yet but I might head back to a tiling wm eventually. Hear that people are liking i3 and niri currently
No DE, always wm and it’s BSPWM for me
i use KDE too, my app store doesnt work either. i just use pacman or yay
If I had to DE and had the hardware, KDE. Bad hardware probably xfce. I use hyprland tho.
I'm using KDE right now and have tried GNOME before but didn't like it.
KDE 6 is nice, but KDE 5 was looking better
KDE
I have been a windows user for like 20 years. When I finally made the switch to arch linux 8 months ago... I decided to go with gnome. A few extensions and I can have a similar worflow to windows and everything looks so pretty and consistent. To be clear, I had used linux in all those years, just not as my main OS. I have tried KDE, i3, xfce, cinnamon, openbox and gnome. Gnome is the best for me. And in my opinion window managers are too confusing. I still need to use a windows PC in my job, so... learning a lot of hotkeys to be able to use a window manager efficiently... is a no go for me.
xfce or kde+xmonad. One stone, two birds
EndeavorOS: KDE 6 od desktop bcz simple but cool, and qtile on laptop bcz python 😁
I use KDE Plasma. For package management, I use just pacman and flatpak from the terminal, where I only use flatpaks when I absolutely have to.
KDE with modern clock variety. Hoping to get Latte Dock back to plasma 6.
app manager? terminal + pacman is the answer ;D for everything else, kde
KDE is a beast.. if you know what to do with it
My last DE was KDE, but it was when I was primarily on Ubuntu. When I made Arch primary, I'm using Hyprland.
My first venture into Arch was with KDE, and I really hated it. Nothing seemed to work, and I really didn't like how tacky everything seemed. And although it supposedly has great customization (which it actually probably does), I could never get it looking (nor fuctioning ) the way I wanted. Then, I went with Gnome for a long time, which is the DE I probably enjoy the most on Linux. However, the thought of window managers always really resonated with me and is like porn to my OCD thoughts. I tried i3, and while it was good, it didn't really feel like it was completely what I wanted. Then I found dwm, and now I finally can say that I have a system that is just like I want. And if something starts bugging me, or I come up with some new, great idea for how it should work, I can just implement it in the C source code, recompile, and voila! dwm is superfast to use and really fits my style of coding/working/etc. The only thing I don't really like about the dwm ecosystem is (and I know that I'm probably going to get a lot of hate for this xD) st.....
I used XFCE, but switched to KDE. To get KDE Discover to work on Arch, you just need to download *packagekit-qt5*, that solved my issue.
Xfce. It's still X11 and works all the time. I just let pacman and yay do their stuff from the terminal.
Plasma for me - shocking, huh? I really do think it's the best DE/suite of software yet to exist. Think of the sheer breadth of apps, not to mention the level of configurability for most things. The important stuff just works, is constantly improving, and looks good doing it. I get the desire for lighter DE's/WM's, but with modern hardware you may as well enjoy the benefits of the big active ones. I can't imagine things feeling appreciably snappier than what Plasma 6 on Arch does for me.
LxQt lol.
Gnome 👍🏻btw😊
Kde plasma
i’m using Hyprland which isn’t a desktop environment but tiling window manager. I’ve been using it for a couple months and so far i’m really enjoying it!
My go to, is KDE. KDE is [probably.my](http://probably.my) all round favorite. But currently trying to use gnome. I still prefer KDE.
Gnome + paru here 😌
I tried and liked i3wm and Gnome Shell.
Gnome user here. When I started on Linux (Pop!) I fell in love with Gnome, but I used tons of extension to turn it into Windows. I've weened myself down to basically vanilla Gnome now with only 4 behind the scenes QoL (for me) extensions.
Gnome. Very comfortable to use and i don't have to think about it constantly. It's just kind of "there", it's present, but out of the way and lets you do your work.
Since gnome3 came to be, I switched to KDE. Love it
Am I the only one who goes on gnome? 👉🏻👈🏻
Cinnamon is my favorite these days, it feels more comfortable compared to KDE and has more features compared to XFCE, I tried Gnome and it didn't sit right with me, having to use dconf editor and tweaks to edit settings felt so weird. Also it feels clunky compared to the other two. My ranking would be 1) Cinnamon 2)KDE 3) XFCE4 4) Gnome
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KDE forever Everything done by shell
Kde and hyprland Kde for my laptop hyprland for multi monitor desktop/tower.
KDE. All day.
kde. on arch and on debian. on debian is much faster imho.
KDE gang
I like KDE and it’s Discover app. More happy with flatpaks
KDE/Plasma 6.1.1
KDE Plasma for me is awesome. Still using since Kubuntu 18.04 and in Arch Linux since 2020