Its 2022, what DE/WM will you be using/switching to?

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I strongly suggest all DE hoppers against trying bspwm. You might ruin your hobby :smile: .

If you want to have complete control on your desktop environment, with only some bash (or script copy) knowledge requirement, bspwm is awesome(r than Awesome).
This year, if earth is not hit by a meteorite (I wouldn’t be surprised… ), I"ll try to make my version of a bspwm-based desktop environment (Yet Another…) :star_struck:

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I run Plasma on one or two distros, Enlightenment on one (more because I think I should than I truly prefer it…I used it long long ago…and I feel loyalty?), and usually sway on the other. I keep reinstalling Deepin because it’s purty and has a consistency that many other environments don’t…I think. I prefer Wayland supported WM/DEs though. X needs to die.
I have one partition with CutefishOS (which kinda disgusts me as their configuration by default had my Ethernet interface constantly requesting a new address, who ships even a beta with that?, but the desktop is kinda interesting in a Deepin way) and I try almost everything…though they don’t get too long an evaluation before I either like or don’t like the environment.

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Have you seen: https://getcyberos.org/#/ ?

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I’ve primarily used gnome, but plan to give i3 a go this year. We’ll see how it goes…

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Are they the same team like https://github.com/cyberos ?
they suggest Cutefish

CyberOS project has abandoned maintenance, please go to CutefishOS

But your linked one looks not-dead. The name is identical…

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Staying with Sway.

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Cutefish looks so damn good. Hopefully it will be fully functional soon.

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I use XFCE, but only when others want to use my computer.

Otherwise, I’m using Spectrwm mostly.

I also have awesome, dwm, herbstluftwm, i3, leftwm, wmderland, and worm installed. When any of those have a feature release, I’ll evaluate for a week or two.

I might dabble with duskwm and add it to the rotation evaluation list.

I hear a new leftwm is likely coming out on the 15th/this weekend.

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I explored a lot of DEs and WMs in 2021. Tried out all the popular ones. The standouts for me were DWM, Qtile, i3, and Gnome 40/41. I’ve ended up moving away from the WMs, and 2022 will be the year of Gnome and Wayland for me. I’m really excited about the new features coming to Gnome in 42 and beyond.

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I just tried Zorin on wifey’s laptop. It looked so polished. I will probably install Zorin on it when Windows eventually borks. Just because it’s such an easy distro for beginners.

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I’m sure I’ll stick to XFCE.
I can’t do any WM, since I’m leaning back on my couch and can only use my mouse. :rofl:

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Every time I try to switch from XFCE, I don’t last. I would love a WM - IF it came with a memory module for the commands (the days when I could learn them and retain them have apparently gone - any attempt seems to bring Amiga key combos back into my mind!)

Over on Garuda they are looking into a community edition of an XFCE/KWin combo (community edition) - might have a look at that when done, see if it matches up to having Compiz on top of XFCE… :grin:

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I’ve tried a lot of things over the years. But somehow, after a while, I end up back with Plasma. For me, it has less to do with the proximity to Windows. That’s more of a flaw for me. However, I will take a closer look at GNOME 42, just out of curiosity.

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Hah, I just recommended Zorin to someone because of it’s Windows ‘skin’. I also booted into it to refresh me on how it looked (been at least two years), and went ‘OMG, it looks like WIndows.’ and ran away. For me that’s a flaw.

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Recently tried LeftWM and am really impressed with it.
The way it handles theming is a game-changer. Also, Rust = fast. :rocket:

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bspwm has a rofi command that gets all the sxhkd keybindings and makes them searchable. Exactly what we need (those of us with a memory problem… :wink: ).

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I don’t need to switch. I use KDE because it’s awesome! :wink:

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for whatever reason i seem to be an XFCE lifer

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Easy enough … roll your own quick reference with ‘yad’… make a text file of the commands you need to use. With a key binding assigned, launch yad and pass the file in.

Whatever your WM’s config might look like, roughly something that would resemble:

bind mod+? = exec yad --textinfo < FILENAMEHERE

I think yad comes with EOS as it’s used as part of the install process.

If one is adept, it may be possible to use sed, awk, and grep of one’s WM config file to make a quick reference file.

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