>>108618739
>Distro
Deb
>DE
Trinity
>would you recommend your setup?
No

>Distro
Mint
>DE
Xfce
>would you recommend your setup
Yes it justwerks no tinkertrannying necessary

>pantheon, aka macOS but worse
>great
Thanks OP, I will never waste my time watching this clown's videos.

>>108618739
>distro
Windows 10 LTSC
>desktop env
explorer.exe
>window manager
you don't need one, code on the left and terminal on the right, alt+tab or win+1/win+2 etc. to focus a window
>would you recommend
it just werks

Debian
XFCE
>recommend
Eh, I would only recommend it to another jaded old fuck like me

>distro
Windows 11
>DE
Fluent UI
>WM
DWM.exe
>recommend
Yes, highly

>Distro
Fedora
>DE
Kde
>would you recommend your setup?
yes
I also have two old laptops: 2011 Dell with Debian Gnome and an 2012 Macbook pro with Fedora Silverblue.

>>108618880
>>108618903
why are you such attention whores? prying for replies from people you allegedly hate is mentally ill

>>108619195
I don't hate other posters here.

>>108618739
artix
sway
>recommend
niggaballs
your welcome mr. nsa agent

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is it still possible to make kde look like this still? or are you trapped with the modern shit?

>>108619251
nope it can look like that no problem with addon themes. just look in discover

>>108619248
baste

>>108618739
>distro
arch
>desktop environment
xfce
>window manager
fvwm3

but i'm thinking of switching to kde. any opinions? stay or switch? i don't need the lightweightness of either xfce or fvwm, but i do enjoy how snappy and efficient xfce is, especially thunar. kde would probably be the same i'm wagering though, at least on 16gb ram.

>>108619195
>people you allegedly hate
seems like someone else has a problem with hate here

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>distro
deb
>DE
xfce
>would you recommend
i mean it just werks, but you need to follow your own path to discovery which distro/DE feels or works best for you.

>>108618912
>>Distro
>Fedora
>>DE
>Kde

>2012 Macbook pro with Fedora Silverblue
Silverblue=gnome

I use Kinoite btw

>>108618739
kde and xfce are fine. i'd prefer a tty and screen or tmux over gnome.
i don't have an opinion on the others.

>>108618739
>Distro
Gentoo
>DE
Xfce
>would you recommend your setup
Idk

>Distro
NixOS
>WM
Hyprland
>would you recommend your setup?
Only if your time is worthless

>>108618859
>t. systemd cuck
Enjoy eternity in hellfire.

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>>108618739
>distro
Fedora
>DE
KDE
>recommend?
yeah, it's pretty good. not too bleeding edge but not borderline anemic like debian-based distros. I don't really have anything to complain about other than FESCO's autism about proprietary codecs. If they included the option to install them like ubuntu does then they would be perfect IMO.

great: dwm or unity
shit: everything else

Kde is the premier DE these days, by a long shot, and the only get more pronounced as valve keeps chipping in. Would be nice if it had native tiling support

As for distros, it's Arch/Fedora. Ubuntu has gone down a bewildering path and even though it's what I started with I can't imagine ever using it again

>>108618739
>distro
cachyOS
>DE
KDE
>recommend?
Ya if you use snapper and btrfs to have rlly easy backups. Most pieces of your system never break but KrashDE tends to break every couple months in a rather catastrophic way. Simple enough, snap back to before the update, wait a couple of days, update again, things work. I've tried a wide range of distros and desktops, if you want a functional and good looking / feeling desktop with VRR and HDR you basically have to go rolling release with KDE. Gnome is a meme. I am probably one of the only people who sincerely adore it's workflow but it is just BTFO by KDE for things like gaming.
>Y not fedora or opensuse
Sorry but fedora and it's derivatives are fucking awful imo. I feel like it breaks more often than any other distro I've used. No thanks. 99% of the time on Arch or an Arch derivative things just work. For the small percentage they don't, they can be easily restored back to functioning order w snapper. Opensuse I tried for a week and thought it was fine. Probably better than fedora.

I dual boot with win10 LTSC for some kernel anti cheat slop games. Secure boot on Arch is ezpz with sbctl.

>>108620038
You can use kwin_wayland with LXQt
so you can have your fancy features AND a good looking desktop

>>108620058
Yoo I didn't know this. Fuck KDE then

>>108618859
>Mint
Enjoy your x11 session

>>108618739
fedora kde

Arch with i3
>would you recommend your setup
No I don't recommend my setup. I recommend experimenting and finding what suits you.

>>108618739
Cinnamon and KDE are the only desktop environments in current year. If you use anything else you have simply made the wrong choice. The 'lightweight' ones are not even lightweight at all, they are barely any different to Cinnamon or KDE on resources if you do a few tweaks like getting rid of animations and gay shit like that. If you can't run KDE or Cinnamon then you can't run any of the others either and you need to look into some actual lightweight solution like i3 or some shit. If your computer is that shit then you can't really use it as a computer in the modern sense anyway, a single browser tab in a fully featured modern browser will already be more than the entire DE.

The tradeoff for literally a fraction of a percent of your ram is you get a DE that is so fucking ugly and retarded and missing half the features any computer should have by default, and you need to spend days finding all the shit you need and adjusting it to not look hideously stupid and ugly.

People hear 'lightweight' and think they are some computer connoisseur making the more sophisticated choice, or some hardcore hacker extracting maximum performance at the bare metal, but neither of those things are true. You are just making more work for yourself for a worse outcome.

Obviously this doesn't apply to Gnome but I shouldn't even have to mention Gnome and why it sucks dick.

i use freebsd, the complete OS, and get straight to work. i dont have time to tinker with Linus’ pet project.

>>108619195
>assumptions by fear
this is an indication that maybe, just maybe, you're the only mentally ill person here

>>108620294
there is nothing wrong with xfce

Mint Cinnamon. It just werks.

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>GREAT: unity
based

>>108618739
Arch
Cinnamon
Not Really, no

>>108618739
>distrofags have more desktop environments than lgbtbbq++ have genders

>Distro
secureblue (hardened fedora atomic)
>DE
KDE
>would you recommend your setup
Yes. It just works and at the same time is more secure than any other distribution

my own distro
KDE
yes it just works

>>108618739
Lumina was good, but if you still have it listed, you need to update this.

>>108618739
Gnome 3 is easily S-tier. The only DE from which MacOS stole features from.
You have to be retarded to not figure out how to use it. An actual luddit.

Although I say that, I don't enjoy it anymore. Gnome devs are pussies and they listened to you, all the retarded faggots that don't know how to use a computer. Because they relied on opinions of such lowly people, Gnome went in a completely different directions lately and will not emphasise what it used to anymore. It used to be top1 multidesktop environment with simultaneous mouse and touch support, key bindings esily configurable (2-3 minutes to set it up and forget for years).

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>>108620181
I am enjoying it very much.

>>108618739
Manjaro with KDE/XFCE/i3wm
>why
The snapshot menu in the grub
Kernel selection
Manjaro-chroot
Basically it's more stable arch and more bleeding edge than fedora.

>>108618739
Bad list

Gnome is way too high

>>108618739
Ubuntu and gnome. I only use it because I have a dell laptop and dell supports Ubuntu.

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>>108621036
>Not Really, no
What is your big fuckin problem man?
Although to be fair once I had finished setting up I felt like I might as well have just stayed on Mint

>>108621663
This image is killing me. God I love Linux Mint but fuck I hate jittering, tearing, and not being able to use my mouse above 500hz. When they get Wayland working properly on cinnamon I'm swapping to it. Is it worth using on other distros or is it retarded?

>>108618739
Currently I'm sticking to Mabox Linux. It's kinda small distro based on Manjaro and with pretty cute, custom Openbox implementation. It's a gimmick but I find it comfy as fuck.

>>108622090
Just install Xlibre. The Ubuntu/Debian instructions for it work just fine on Mint.

NixOS
Hyprland and KDE (X11)
Not really. It works for me but most would be annoyed by the quirks.

My mother lost all her toes in Vietnam.

>distro
Artix
>WM
i3wm
>would you recommend
100%. Dunst for notifications, rofi for application launching. Let me guess, you need more?

>distro
Guix
>desktop
labwc with waybar
>recommendation
labwc is no nonsense and Guix is worth it if you like what it offers

>>108622110
Y'know what fair enough. I think I will go for it. I don't like the developer of xLibre because he should keep his faggot ass opinions out of his work. I do like his work tho, xLibre seems so nice.

>Distro
Pop!_os 22.04 LTS.
>DE
GNOME
>would you recommend your setup?
Specifically? No, because it's outdated there's only a year of support left on 22.04 LTS. I haven't had a chance to evaluate COSMIC yet.

I've tried using Xfce and used CDE ages ago but I've never found any of the advantages to be worth the hassle of switching. CDE was cool when it meant you were running Solaris on a SPARCstation in the 90s, but those days are long gone. I also tried KDE a few times back in the late 2000s but just never went down that path. I hear good things but it's never been enough to bother switching it up.

>Yes it justwerks no tinkertrannying necessary
Yet you’re always slower than my dwm, alacritty + vimium

>>108618739
>crappy minimally featured GUIs that look like they were designed 20 years ago are better than KDE
>twms not even listed
who the fuck uses trinity or unity in 2026?

>>108622323
>I don't like the developer of xLibre because he should keep his faggot ass opinions out of his work. I do like his work tho,
That's very refreshing to hear. I'm so tired of tribe/culture war shit.

>>108618739
please enlighten me as to why you put xfce so much higher than KDE
no one reply to me except OP

>>108618903

Based. I use Windows 11 25H2 as well. I’m glad the Neo is selling well and /g/ is sperging out to Linux. Both circumstances will make 26H2 and beyond better.

>>108624386
it's not my chart bro
https://youtu.be/qYNee3m2hMQ

>>108624404
>uses windows
>is happy apple is performing well if only just to stick it to imaginary linux users in your head
meds. now.

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>>108624386
his thumbnail is clickbait btw. this is what he actually does in the video

>>108618739
>Distro
Arch
>WM
i3
>would you recommend your setup?
Yep. Everything else sucks. Hyprland users should be legally compelled to use my rice without a compositor.

>>108620253
>Arch with i3
there is no better combination

>>108626388
>>108626109
usecase when mouse exists?

>>108618739
Windows 11 Pro. Rarely use linux, but the best is Fedora Workstation (GNOME).

>Distro
Void
>DE
KDE
>would you recommend your setup
idk

>>108618739
Where's EXWM?

>>1086
>>108618739
>Distro
EndeavourOS
>WM
Niri with Waybar and Rofi and etc
>would you recommend your setup?
I would recommend a setup like this

>>108618739
>Distro
Arch
>DE
Openbox
>Would you recommend your setup?
It's a comfy middle ground for anyone who hates guis but wants the option to use software that requires them, doesn't want a desktop environment, but also doesn't want to live in tty.

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>>108622323
I mean, same... He should shut the fuck up, at least behind his yapping there's actually functional piece of software so one can just ignore him sperging out and enjoy having working system.
Ultimately I just want my computer to work. If uncle Adolf himself will rise from the grave to write unfucked, functional Linux stuff, I'll be using it.

>>108618739
>Budgie
>Yuck
WTF. Budgie is fine. The issue is the small number of developers on it and promising to finally kick gnome to the curb for QT and Wayland with "Budgie 11" that they've been promising for like 2 years now.

It works fine for a DE. I only don't recommend it because it's clear it's never going to "ignite" on the level of gnome or KDE and it doesn't have a niche case like LXDE/XFCE.

>>108620711
Shockingly ugly, time consuming to make it look and work reasonably well, and missing a lot of basic features out of the box. I've spent a fair bit of time in Xfce trying to convince myself I liked it, but never came around. If you get it via a distro which has done most of that work for you then its OK, but still not as good as KDE or Cinnamon.

>>108628047
Anyway, to answer the question:

>>108618739
>Distro
Arch
>Desktop Environment/Window Manager
I've tried them all, bar Pantheon (at the time the "official" repo on Arch wouldn't install properly, I should try it again).

I use KDE as a daily.

I liked Budgie well enough but like I said above: It's clear it's not going to get mass support so it's hard to recommend it and convince others to use it. But the idea of a "Mac Like/Windows Like" quick switch is nice. (Though compressing the taskbar/start menu into a "dock" doesn't make it Mac like IMO).

Gnome I didn't like how anal it was toward customizing it (Use Case for Customizing?) but on a laptop, the gestures a Mac-like and work good. I'm too used to non-Mac laptops (and have a Desktop) to where using it for that isn't worth suffering Ebussy's bullshit.

I tried all the available tiling window managers on Arch (ratpoison, iwm, etc.) didn't grok/understand the benefits of those, so bounced off all of them. I did like *snapping fingers, trying to remember* ... forgetting the name off the top of my head (iwm is it? I think???) where you could open an application and set it a corner/screen sizing with ctrl+1,2,3,4,5,6 which was nice for keyboard shortcuts, but again: I didn't get into tiling, so it wasn't worth it for me.

LXDE/LXQt: Works, but I'm not on something so constrained to where I need a spartan system like that.

Same with XFCE: Works, but I'm not (v)RAM limited to where I need it. If it works for you, great.

Unity/Cinnamon/MATE, etc. all Gnome-a-likes, see Gnome, but in different ways of annoyance in terms of looks/functions/etc.

Not listed in OP's "tier list" is Cosmic, which I thought was neat, but it taking over default apps that KDE has on install if you use it isn't nice and it's clear it's still "alpha software" with bugs/issues with software/hardware. I don't know if System76 will eventually finish it (see: Pop!), but as an Alpha it has potential and if they keep working on it...

>>108620984
>60 gorillion
Oy gevalt.

>>108626388
>>108626109
hyprland has made i3 and sway obsolete thougheverbeit and x11 is a rotting corpse

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>>108618739
OpenMandriva
Xfce
Yes

>>108618739
Gentoo with LXQt. Sure, I'd recommend it. I like it a lot.

I run FreeBSD with awesomeWM, it's neat once you get used to it

>>108618739
>PC for games and graphical work
NixOS, DWM
>Laptop for mobile writing work
Void, DWM
>Would you recommend your setup?
The former yes, the latter is out of necessity (i686)

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Slackware/i3
It's alright, I just install the handful of programs I want, slot in my existing i3 config and just take it easy.
>muh dependency management
I don't know what the hell you're doing to be juggling packages 24/7, I just get what I want and call it a day. I am content as a bloatlord.
>would you recommend your setup?
No, /g/ can't use what I use.

>>108618739
Gentoo
KDE
It just werks

>>108618739
gentoo
niri
it's fine, but i'd probably install something lower-maintenance next time like void

>>108618739
>distro
Cachy
>WM
River
>Would you recommend?
Yes, migrated from hyprland after realizing it was slop. River is not trying to be flashy, its minimal, it doesnt have a dependency on bloated xorg, it can be configuered in a single bash script.
Its the only true suckless enviroment imo

>>108618850
be an adult and use a real distro/de

>>108618739
> Distro
Raw arch linux for pacman
> DE
Based XFCE
> WM
xfwm

Yes I recommend it; it is literally the best you can get

And:
Keyd & xbindkeys for keyboard stuff
Dtach for terminal automation
Terminator & alacritty for terminals
Librewolf (sucks ass btw) for browser
vscode (also sucks ass) & qtextpad for text editing
Gemma 4 E4B & bonsai 8B as LLM slaves on llama.cpp

>>108618739
>distro
devuan
>DE
lxqt
>wm
kwin_x11 (until sonic_wm gets packaged)
>recommend
depends on your use case
>[spoiler]
lmao

>>108630510 (me)
*sonic-win

>>108628058
i left kde for the based rat, and it took only a few hours to set it up to perfection. i got pretty sick of kde so i dont miss anything there, in fact, i think the mouse does much better, its just more correct.

>>108618739
>Distro
Xubuntu 24 LTS
>DE
Xfce (the default)

It just works, why waste time configuring anything more?

>>108628794
>Slackware
Have fun reinventing the wheel, over and over again, all day and night. I guess these days though, with AI, you can reinvent the wheel 10x faster than before.

>>108622126
I hate it when that happens

>>108618880
Windows WM is DWM, retard.

>>108628216
>click on terminal
>move mouse over browser
>scroll
>terminal scrolls instead of browser
No

>>108633382
Sway doesn't have this issue w/ xwayland but hyprland somehow does.

>>108628216
And just for the ricing on the cake:

# Make all windows transparent
bindsym $mod+o exec \
  "sed --follow-symlinks -i 's/inactive-opacity = ..../inactive-opacity = 0.77/g;s/^active-opacity = ..../active-opacity = 0.77/g' .config/picom/picom.conf"
# Make all windows opaque
bindsym $mod+p exec \
  "sed --follow-symlinks -i 's/inactive-opacity = ..../inactive-opacity = 1.00/g;s/^active-opacity = ..../active-opacity = 1.00/g' .config/picom/picom.conf"
# Make only the focused window opaque
bindsym $mod+shift+o exec \
  "sed --follow-symlinks -i 's/inactive-opacity = ..../inactive-opacity = 0.77/g;s/^active-opacity = ..../active-opacity = 1.00/g' .config/picom/picom.conf"
# Make only the focused window transparent
bindsym $mod+shift+p exec \
  "sed --follow-symlinks -i 's/inactive-opacity = ..../inactive-opacity = 1.00/g;s/^active-opacity = ..../active-opacity = 0.77/g' .config/picom/picom.conf"
# Show window content under transparent windows
bindsym $mod+mod1+o exec \
  "sed --follow-symlinks -i 's/transparent-clipping = true/transparent-clipping = false/g' .config/picom/picom.conf"
# Only show desktop background under transparent windows
bindsym $mod+mod1+p exec \
  "sed --follow-symlinks -i 's/transparent-clipping = false/transparent-clipping = true/g' .config/picom/picom.conf"

Totally impossible on gayland.

>>108630522
Would you mind showing me your desktop/menu/windows? Curious to see how well you moved it out of 1995.

>>108618739
>distro
openSUSE
>DE
kde
>would you recommend your setup?
it just werks. i just use it for gayming and storage tho so YMMV

>>108630499
Such as?

>>108631425
https://dwm.suckless.org