bluds getting aggresive
Yer just a bit hey, I think they were trying to be funny
I guess I just don’t want to cause a riot here 
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We live in a primitive world indeed if a discussion about DEs is enough to cause a riot.
yep. People these days get very irritable… over the most simple things like how your laptop screen looks like.
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sort of but is just to start a program more not 
but yeah i am bit desqview fan in the past 
LXQt.
Sway when I just want everything set up for efficiency.
It used to be Openbox until LXQt was developed enough. The thing about Openbox is it takes a lot of time to get it just so and if you’re doing a lot of installs… Finally noticed LXQt with Kwin was fairly close to my “just so” and also based on Qt made it quick, plus easy to install kde apps without having to pull in loads of dependencies so have stuck with it. For some reason the LXQt install includes Openbox so it is there if I want to do something with it but I haven’t for a while.
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On my desktop, an old late 2014 macMini, I tried XFCE, Cinnamon, KDE, and Gnome on Arch. KDE preformed best, hands down. I’ve always loved KDE and it’s only gotten better over the years. So I’m happy KDE won the DE battle for my desktop daily driver. And it’s running EndeavourOS KDE Plasma 6 Wayland like a champ.
As for the laptop, a 2021 Samsung Galaxy Book Pro, I tried the same DE’s above. And to my surprise, Gnome 46 came out the clear winner in performance. Just spending this week reacquainting myself with Gnome as it’s been years since I last used it. I’m really liking it so far. No issues at all with Arch as the distro. Though I’m thinking I may try to make Nemo the default files manager. A couple good Arch tutorials for that. Never been a fan of Nautilus.
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nautilus was the gold standard but depending on DE is not itself anymore.
Nemo is the best, with built-in file re-sizer and file roller. I consider it the Nautilus successor and better looking.
Thunar a distant 3rd.
Love XFCE but really dislike its native stuff including terminal and note pad and file manager.
As for KDE, I’ve never installed a K-package and have been better for it:).
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Currently, I’d say Plasma 5 is the best, followed by Plasma 6, followed by Trinity.
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I like playing around with this from time to time, I think it’s a really cool DE
I agree. And I got it installed, set as the default file browser and even themed correctly to match the rest of the Gnome apps…
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there is a thread for that
oops sorry. I’ll probably delete the post and repost it there
Windows 11, I love how the system is so well integrated with Edge, Onedrive and Windows 365. It also comes with a built-in anti-virus and…Uhm… which forum is this?..What?..The one I co-found… 
Right…Xfce of course…Oh, I just heard that isn’t on the Live environment anymore…
Plasma 5, 6, Plasma 6, yes that’s it… 
(Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Back on-topic again 
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Bro broke character 
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Left a bad taste in your mouth, didn’t it? Even though it was a joke.
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I’ve used both KDE Plasma and GNOME - here are my thoughts:
• I prefer KDE Plasma - to me, it just seems and feels more intuitive, it’s more versatile, and it’s more customizable. I know some think that KDE Plasma feels too “Windows-y” - I won’t (pretend to) speak for anybody else, but having used Windows for a long time before switching from Windows to Linux in 2021, I can honestly say that my gripe with Windows was definitely not with the desktop layout or the taskbar; I wasn’t motivated to switch because of aesthetics, although I do believe that Linux DEs in general - including KDE Plasma - look a lot nicer. I’m not so turned off by Windows that even the resemblance of a Windows environment would cause me to reconsider. (But I wouldn’t want it to look exactly like Windows, either.)
• GNOME isn’t a bad DE, either - however, I find it to be a bit too constrained and limiting, and it doesn’t have the same polish as KDE Plasma. In some ways, it just seems kind of boring to me. But it generally does work well in my experience. I’ve always thought that the GNOME layout and scheme seemed best suited for tablets - I’m not the only one who thinks this.
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This right here. I’m the same when it comes to this. Their DE isn’t bad. It’s what’s under the hood that I don’t like.
That being said, I love how Linux in general allows me to switch the look and feel on the fly without needing to download and trust some unsupported hack (Rainmeter).
Of course, it is only a hack because Windows is closed-source.
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I actually like GNOME’s looks, but my issue is how GNOME’s built-in apps are lackluster in my experience compared to KDE’s offerings.
Take the screenshot utilities. Spectacle has a more robust selection for screenshots, you can do simple edits on them before they being saved/pasted into the clipboard, they offer the feature for the screenshot to be pasted automatically into the clipboard without “saving it” (I’m sure Spectacle saves the image in .cache or a temporary directory somewhere else; the idea here is that I don’t have to manually go and copy the image myself), alongside other features.
Nautilus requires you to make your own empty documents for things and put them in the Templates folder, which is both cool and absurd IMO. It’s cool because you have a lot of control over what you put in those files. It’s absurd because you have to do this even for completely empty files. A hybrid system would be, in my opinion, less frustrating to the end user.
I know one can use other utilities than the built-in ones, but I prefer using the built-in software, that, theorically, works well with the DE.
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