I just reboot into Cinnamon as i have triple boot. 
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no subliminal message just bad wording
None!
i3
(I have recently decided to do away with the bar as well. Now it’s all wallpaper or application. It’s awesome in my humble opinion)
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By the way, this is possible due to a script I wrote that sends some of the info I liked having in the bar, via notify-send to a notification.
If this is useful to you, feel free to grab yourself a copy.
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I’m a little over a month away from being KDE only. I promised myself I would get a full year on an install, and that will probably be the end of my Cinnamon install. I just like KDE too much at this point. So, after I make it a full year, I’ll swap it out for KDE.
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I’m on the opposite end, - after a good few years on Plasma, I’ve just wiped and re-installed default XFCE, back up and running in less than twenty minutes. Ensured there were the accessibility tools I needed on install, beyond that, I think I tweaked the fonts and icons, and that was it. In all honesty it feels nice to be thinking less about the toolset and more about the work. Plasma is incredible, but holy moly I got lost down that customisation rabbithole… 
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The only real reason I use plasma over xfce
. . . Krohnkite. I used to battle xfce+i3 to get everything working just almost correct. There was always some nuance though that I couldn’t figure out.
Plasma with krohnkite is everything I’ve been trying to make Linux do for a long time, and everything basically just works. And if I want a normal window manager experience,I just turn it off.
Zentile was close with xfce, but it’s not really anywhere near as polished and development is slow, if it even if still happening at all.
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interesting Krohnkite, I did not know, thank you for the discovery.
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I did try Kronkite and it is good.
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This video explains it pretty good.
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Yup. That’s it. KDE+Krohnkite is my perfect distro. I have nothing left to want.
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I’ve tried to get rid of the bells and whistles. Right now, I don’t run any compositor. I do have a bar.
But whenever I need to stream my screen to friends/ class, I make sure picom is running with heavy blur effects, over-blown shadows and I crank up the gaps in i3. 
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Yes, Krohnkite is wonderful - it’s a good idea to make a list of all those keyboard shortcuts and stick them in a conky on the desktop for a while. With Activities/Desktops and ‘Maxmize to new virtual desktop’ kwin script it’s wonderful.
Make sure you find out how to enable the settings in there…
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/kservices5/ ln -s ~/.local/share/kwin/scripts/krohnkite/metadata.desktop ~/.local/share/kservices5/krohnkite.desktop
Has anyone shilled for DWM on this thread yet?
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I may have, either here or in some other thread. I really like dwm.
The two reasons I use KDE is the fact that I really like Konsole, the terminal emulator and Kate, the text editor. Now, I can use Konsole and Kate on dwm, as well, but to install them I need to install a hundred KDE dependencies anyway, so at that point, I may as well just use KDE.
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I generally switch between Budgie (good-looking, simple) and MATE (tweakable, lightweight).
I’m currently on EndeavourOS+Budgie, but I was on EndeavourOS+MATE before the latest ISO.
For “Other” :
- I love Openbox, for example as implemented in BunsenLabs.
- Pantheon is probably the DE I prefer, but it’s better looking on its mother distro (elementary OS)
- I love to test new DE’s. Cutefish looks cool (but is still unfinished).
dwm is real deal, it suck less! 
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Cinnamon here 
Xfce is always my fallback DE, but if I can get Cinnamon set up the way I like it then I stick with that.
Gnome 40, that’s my favorite
I Had used Windows, Mac & Linux
UI Design Rank
Gnome 40 (Linux) > Mac > Windows
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Loved this Poll
@Bryanpwo i would love to see many polls threads in this forum
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