nice pacbang
You still using the original shortcuts …
I picked up pacbang last year - it looked like it needed a refresh.
I will start by saying the reason there are multiple DEs is because different DEs work for different people and I love that I have the choice 
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I use KDE plasma personally because I have always found KDE to have the nicest theming options available for someone who uses both MacOS and Linux. I love the customizable splash screens, login screens, docks, and top/bottom bars. It has also been mostly rock solid stable.
The other DE I’ve used is gnome which has a nice concept but I always found the animations to be slow, theming to be more difficult, and extensions constantly refusing to load after trying to update them or even breaking the shell. 
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I boot into several Linux builds, and all of them have Openbox as the main desktop. I stopped using DE’s months ago. All my Linux build have Openbox, i3, and either bspwm or AwesomeWM. I’ll have the occasional LXQT or Fluxbox (Fluxbox has an attitude I like, like Travis Bickle in front of a mirror “You talkin’ to me?”). I’d like to see what EOS build an Openbox implementation, as the i3 one is stellar.
I was part in the creation of Plasma 5.x and is a member of KDE eV so… ehm I think I have to use Plasma 
That said even though I return to Plasma I always try out different DE’s. They are all brilliant but I have my preferred setup since forever
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I’m back on Xfce after cinnamon but I am always tempted by Gnome (and Deepin, but I won’t be touching it before it finally is out of beta).
For those interested in UKUI:
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Hmm thanks for sharing. I Iike the look of that UKUI Desktop. However, as Ubuntu doesn’t appeal to me. I’m going to look into galaxy kylin instead.
Also, I take it that desktop you shared the other day was actually UKUI not chromebook 
Eta: Just looked into it and don’t think it’s for me. As security and servers etc are all involved seems a bit advanced for me…
UKUI is another chinese DE / technically started as fork of Deepin, which looks absolutely great (although UKUI has some Windowsish vibes)
But just as Deepin is not stable (and i’d add potentially not safe coz well…It’s hard to maintain anything at all without CCP when you located in China)
With all that being said - If you want it, you can try it with Arch on VM or real machine too, however i would not in a good faith recommend to use it fulltime
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Isn’t UKUI offered in Endeavour’s online installer?
Sorry to disappoint you. It was from a Chromebook. Thought it pehaps looked a bit UKUI-esque. I happen to have one of those machines. Mainly for just toying around with it to see what it is all about.
Not sure about installer, but you can get it:
Arch
sudo pacman -S ukui xorg-server sudo systemctl enable lightdm
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Yeah that’s what I gathered.
Is it?..i haven’t seen anyone in the forums mention it… I may have to look into it in that case. Thanks for the tip.
sigh First you move away from Cinnamon and now you’re on a Chromebook!! You really are letting the team down 
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Perhaps I should be setting up VMs to try out more stuffs. The truth is I am getting burned out with all the choices and options there are in Linuxland.
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Yeah i hear you…I’d personally use in a heartbeat anything that looks and feels like Deepin or UKUI and not buggy and potentially risky at the same time…
Linux DEs have a lot to learn in UI/UX from those chinese guys
But i guess only way to achieve this is to DIY with something stable like AwesomeWM
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Cheers! @keybreak I’ll do some more research to see if I want to install it in a VM - I try not to download too many packages from the repos as then it’s more to maintain. Plus, more chances of things breaking.
Or, I could just be a cinnamon traitor like pebcak and use UKUI instead 
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No way I am leaving Cinnamon. I like it a lot. I just have to see what is around the corner. Linux feels like traveling in a foreign land. so much to see, explore and learn.
And I admitt, buying the Chromebook at the first place, was due to a “momentarily lapse of reason”.
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No worries, I was only messing around 
I completely agree with you about there being so much to explore and learn in Linux. I know, I for one will never go back to using Windoze not with all the options available in the Linux eco sphere.
Buying a Chromebook however, is not something I can relate to 
… But we all have our logical relapses 
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I know that I have seen the option in the installer of one of the Arch-based distros. I am not 100% sure if it was EnOS’. Perhaps Arco’s ? Have to look at it later on.
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Thanks for that! It’s comforting to know. The thing is that I have the impression sometimes that mine are too frequent 
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For a long time, that’s all I had. I ended up with Gallium OS which if you like XFCE is a very polished distro. I also ran Manjaro KDE on it as well, and the chromebook keyboard setup in calamares was very close to the Google keyboard. As long as Coreboot supports your model, you could be in luck! Chrome OS is Linux after all. Ctrl+alt+T will bring up a terminal still.
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Thanks for the info and the suggestions. I will surely look into it a bit further down the road. I guess it is possible to flush it’s bios completely and install other OS as well. For the moment, I think I will keep it as is. Partly because it is still quite new and I am a bit curious about how the OS evolves over time. I am not using it in anyway as my daily driver. EnOS won’t leave any space for that.