I had my ups and downs with kde plasma. I like xfce but two things bug me a lot, 1) its painfully difficult to resize windows on the corners using a mouse, 2) thunar does not seem to have a proper file search function. I also like i3 wm, to me the usage of the full window space and tiling makes most sense.
Gnome is to me the most well integrated and simple DE, it is very polished nice looking but for me something always breaks or bugs me. Last time I used gnome it locked me out after suspend and did not allow me to log back in with my password (randomly). Full disclosure it was not on EOS. That was a deal breaker else I would perhaps be using it too.
Right know I use kde on work laptop, xfce+ i3wm at home. Used cinnamon for a while as it seems to be the only one dealing well with my high dpi screens.
You’re welcome - I have LOTS of them added in to Thunar (convert png to jpg, check sha sums, open dir as root, compare files/dirs with meld etc etc). If you want any more of them - just ask!
Which I use depends on the computer, main is back to UKUI, though a bit more half-assed than before, as I’d been having problems with Plasma. The media is on Plasma, the bedroom is on… I think UKUI, haven’t used it in a month. And my laptop that no one wanted to buy is now running LeftWM though I need some time to set it up properly.
Should be - at worst you can write a script, and have that called by Thunar using the same methods. Lots of info on that at XFCE-docs (or close) when researching…
After abandoning Vista and grabbing a Ubuntu CD to install, I was okay with Gnome until Unity came along. Tried KDE a few times and boy did it suck big-time… And that stupid naming, Konverter instead of Converter… so childish, so ridiculous…
But the surprise is over, after testing KDE 6 months ago it just took over. Mostly what you don’t like can be dumped - so it’s not even a desktop (like Gnome) as much as a children’s LEGO kit with switches to turn bits on and off.
What’s there to dump? The Kde Plasma setup on Endeavour is one of the best and I’ve tried them all! I like the plasma parts not so much the kde apps but some of them i do like. Some i don’t and i choose what i want but mostly what is already installed is minimal and okay for me. I just add other stuff. For instance Discover is out! which is good. Vista? I guess you were time travelling.
Lolz well yes, mostly I deleted the panel and put in Latte bottom right for my systray, and another on the right edge for the tasks, put kwin-effects-OSD for a clock (shows semi-transparent on top, good for watching Plex fullscreen)…
Just tweaking really, I don’t like panels for some reason. I think from original Gnome I felt it took up vertical screenspace on a widescreen, and stuff like the Event Calendar need horizontal space to look right.
I am maybe the second person who doesn’t like KDE. Its looks like a good customizable DE but probably I’m the one too dumb to config it. Plus it faced severe lags on my PC. I tried it on Fedora, Solus and Arch. On all three it lagged to the extent that I would call it unusable. Interesting fact is that when I run a VM on the same PC and then run KDE inside that, then it works okay.
(No hate intended towards KDE. I’m just sharing my experience.)
Anyways I use i3wm and will probably switch to AwesomeWM. I also keep Xfce installed in case I need to use a traditional style desktop for some reason. Before I started using i3, Xfce was my fav DE. I did use Budgie for few months since I used Solus and they didn’t have Xfce in their repo.
No problem with Cinnamon. It’s reliable and i find out of all the desktops it seems to have the least amount of issues with updates. Just keeps ticking.
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