WHAT DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT SHOULD I INSTALL?

What desktop environment should I install?

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KDE.

KDE

mate

>heavy bloatmonster
Sweet jesus Sup Forums, you changed.

Keep the current one

>desktop environment
get i3 instead

...

But I don't like Unity.

Dubs confirm.

xfce with gtk3 wrappers
Looks better than gnome 3 and kde.

this is the only correct answer, OP.

KDE isn't even that bloated, stop memeing.

KDE

Use one that you like.

What is your fucking user case?

KDE sucks, use Gnome 3

>User Case
What's that?

Clothes?

yes hands down for mate

cinnamon

live comfy ever after

this

What purpose does your computer serve? Why do you turn it on? Is it a Facebook machine, a multi-purpose learning/ricing Linux server, a notepad, a development machine, something else?

the one you like the most, now go install it and fuck off

gnome sucks, use kde

Gentoo

Lumina.

Then you can tell us if it's shit or not.

solus

keep unity. hold down windows key to see good shortcuts. turn on workspaces and use alt+w and ctrl+alt+w. get compizconfig tool and change some stuff. maybe turn on light graphics mode and definitely change the action key to alt so you can alt+right click to resize and alt+left click to move windows

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>alt+w and ctrl+alt+w.
meant windows+w and ctrl+windows+w, windows+s for workspaces if you enable them

xmonad

but why would anyone just go around dragging blank terminals?

that's Sup Forums's primary use case

It looks like shit to me.

This guy has it right. MATE is comfy. Out of the box. I like the MATE dark theme better than the stock white one though.

Xfce.

The only real choice.

Looks aren't everything.

I don't want my DE being a bloated piece of shit, thanks.

Unity Kills my shit laptop.
Right now use Linux mint.

dwm for every day use
gnome for when you need a de

>Make your system interface as busy or as minimalist as you like!
just bite the bullet for us user

All the other ones suck
t. Xfce user on OpenSUSE

i3 is part of the DE. And it IS your DE, if you don't use anything else.

Xfce is the way to go.

i3 is a WM moron, you don't require to have installed any DE for it to work, don't pull definitions out of your ass.

It's what I do in place of no gaems

>KDE
I swear half of you are blind. Cinnamon or bust

A DE is a wm plus the tools you need or want. If you need or want zero extra tools, then your de contains only a wm. So your wm is your de. Face it, you are just a fucking normie that uses a DE.

Sure if you enjoy getting random error messages out the ass and UI elements breaking every time you change something.

Look at you trying to re-invent the fucking wheel (objective definition).

Read some wikis before you act full of yourself, asshat.

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Window_manager

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_manager

>drags around blank terminal windows

virtual desktops are fucking useless, just admit it.

Budgie Desktop

Are you using arch? No such thing happens on a mature distribution.

Happens all the time on Xubuntu.

then something went wrong or xubuntu is shit. Can't tell because I never tried it.

>or xubuntu is shit
you've cracked the case

>what is an example

Kid please, use some logic. The definition of a wm is simple and it can be part of a DE. If it isn't used as a part of a DE, it IS the DE. The DE is the environment, that provides a desktop like experience while working on a computer. If you pull a text out of the drawer (file structure), you need to put it on your desk, so you can read or edit it. If there is nothing more than a wm, the wm provides the desktop. So the wm is the DE.

apparently it's not even useful for your 30 tabs in chrome

But xubuntu isn't xfce. It's just one distribution that uses it.

Did you seriously spend time writing this fucking pile of garbage?

lxqt

I don't know what world you live in, but WM != DE. Take for example the default X WM, twm. Literally all it does is manage windows. For example it provides decorations for different windows and allows for overlap. That's all it fucking does. There's no fucking desktop here just a bunch of floating, decorated windows.

Install KDE, GNOME, and i3 and just choose which one you want to use depending on your mood.

is there a way to remove the icon tray on the left? it takes up so much fucking space

KDE

"Simple by default, powerful when needed"

Go gnome3 with dash to dock or go home.

Yeah, but it's so unresponsive you should just pretend you can't.

KDE

Works on my machine :^)

>using the smiley with the carat nose

All of them

It is impossible to avoid the bloat: you still have to use the bloated Xorg or Wayland anyways, so might as well embrace the bloat.

Fag enabler.

Maybe you just don't understand what you are using... By saying there is no desktop, you mean there is nothing on the desktop except any opened files. But a clean desktop is still a desktop. Don't mix up GUI paradigms and categories of tools.

KYSDE

Solus.

woah nice desktop thread

GNOME, if you're not a nigger

This is the new desktop thread!

mmhmm