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Currently I am on KDE, but I am an xfce lover. I can't wait for the next xfce update and for Cosmic.
I am living KDE almost default. I have the impression that with too much customisation problems come.
Xfce is rock solid and rock solid after customisation too. It is truly amazing.
Gnome needs far too many extension for me to be usable. And so I avoid it.
Cinnamon is great too, but it's in the middle. If I don't want to use Wayland, at that point there is xfce.
Qtile, just because it's Python-based.
How is being python-based a good thing?
Well, Python is my main programming language, so things being made with it gives me a feeling that I can understand and control them. Sometimes this feeling is even right, for example with Qtile, which is also configured with Python.
I'm currently using Cinnamon because I thought it would be better than Xfce. While I do think that Cinnamon looks better, there were some minor things that I preferred with Xfce. I want to try Mate and maybe some of the other DEs if I can find a good distro that has them but I may go back to Xfce the next time I install Linux Mint.
Try Budgie
I can try that, do you know of any distro that has it preinstalled? I don't care too much about what it's based on but I might prefer a distro that's similar to Linux Mint.
I'm not really that sort of user, so I have no idea. I use arch and XFCE but have toyed with Budgie and Cinnamon in the past as potential replacements for xfce, and while I liked them, they didn't... feel right.
Solus was the originator of Budgie, Manjaro used to have a community spin. I'm not sure who's responsible or pushing it these days, but it is similar in that it's a gnome3 based, traditional desktop with hardly any outside dependencies outside of itself.
Ok, I can try Solus. As long as the only meaningful difference is the package manager, I should be able to use it.
Also, I didn't find the Manjaro spin but on Budgie's official website, there is a list of distros that come with Budgie. So, I can try those if, for some reason, can't use Solus.
I use KDE plasma 5 atm and i planning on an upgrade to 6 soon; but it's my daily driver so I've dragging my feet on it for a couple weeks now.
What happened when tried troubleshooting those problems you had?
I use herbstluftwm. The configuration is straightforward and it fits my minimal needs.
Gnome with dash to dock and the app indicator extensions.
Cosmic, just trying it out because i liked the extensions system76 made for gnome, and cosmic DE is more native experience of that.
I have gnome installed and setup as a backup, plus I use its greeter, but I am another who does not really want a full DE and instead using Sway as my WM day to day.
I have two 32"@4k monitors so normal manual floating window management just annoys me, I greatly prefer tiling window management to auto sort my windows for me. Its extremely rare that I need to full screen anything on monitors this large to fit everything I want in width wise so I want multiple apps per monitor.
If all of this is managed dynamically for me, and I am not manually sizing or overlapping stuff, all the better. Couple that with easy use of multiple workspaces for different tasks (I typically use three per monitor), rarely do I have a need to manually resize anything. I have it setup to open my common apps on the right workspace for me, and each workspace set to the right layout for that set of apps, so much less faffing.
My (40%) keyboard(s) run QMK and are setup to enable most of my common combos, such as switching workspace, moving apps around are never more than two keys. The more I can do without moving my hands from the keyboard, the better for me.
Final thing is that Sway is wayland and for me extremely stable.