Hello, I'm looking to install Arch. But what desktop enviorment do you guys recommend?

Hello, I'm looking to install Arch. But what desktop enviorment do you guys recommend?

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KDE. Make sure you install and enable SDDM as well. inb4 WM only kiddos tell you to install i3 and nothing but curses programs.

Herbstluftwm

You're supposed to pick one you like.

I myself use i3. If you prefer a more "traditional" environment, I'd go with Xfce. KDE is a little too heavy for my tastes, but there is nothing wrong with it if you like the additional eye candy.

Why do you insist on SDDM? I find it pretty bad, especially since it doesn't use Wayland like GDM, so there will be flicker when you load your desktop.

I actually like GDM more but my problem with that is that it pulls in Gnome bloat with it.

I had no idea. That sucks.

i3wm

You will regret arch, an operational system shouldn't be about trying to fix it quirks. It should just unironically werk.

I've tried using this before but I don't really know how to use it

MATE
Usable, Stable and Lite

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I was thinking about using KDE, but how it looks is kind off making me not want to use it. Got any tips how to make it look better?

It does just unironically werk.
Also, what is an "operational system"?

>DEs
Ignore these cucks. Just use i3wm.

>using the brainlet wm
OP use Xmonad

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Xmonad or suckless dwm

RTFM

Change the theme

KDE

This

t. who has never used a window manager

Don't use Arch OP, use Temple OS

KDE

Install Arc and Papirus
boom, not ugly

>Arch
Must be really nice having all that time to watch anime, rice your desktop and play video games instead of having to work, OP.

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t. plebuntu
It must be really sad being this brainlet and not be able to install and use a real OS.

Taking the bait here but you do know Arch is the easiest distribution to use right

t. brainlet who's never used arch

>real OS
Not him but fucking hell user. using bleeding edge bloat is not what I would call a "real OS". feel free to act like a cocky suckup when you successfully install gentoo or source mage...or use a sane distro like debian or suse leap

>Debian
>SUSE
Out of the box shit with 60000+ packages? Fuck, no.
I'm dualbooting gentoo and arch right now. Is not that hard to install.

Including suse wasn't a good idea but a bare install of debian has very few packages also arch combines dev packages so the package count is a lot higher than you think

MATE

Who gives a fuck
You installing on a 1 GB drive or something

Not who you're responding to,
but work is overrated.
I look forward to a day when I can just write code that I want to write.
Business objectives are always boring and dumb.

Oops, forgot screenfetch.

XFCE is comfy OP

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>curses
>WM
bloated garbage. I bet you even use "the gnu coreutils"

I use a pencil and paper for all my computing needs. Yes, I'm shitposting from a loose leaf paper right now.

Pencils are bloat. Dip a needle in ink

Non you fucking faggot
DEs are bloated as shit, install openbox or i3 with a login manager and you're set

>complaining about bloat
>suggesting a login manager

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I was trying to list an alternative to a DE, and DEs have login managers

Needing anything but a brain
brainlets

>login manager
>not .xinitrc

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>You're supposed to pick one you like.
You're absolutelly right, dude !

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Speak for yourself amigo

xfce4, don't even use sddm or anything, just launch it by going: startxfce4

CDE

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MATE is the fucking bomb

i3. Do a test run in virtualbox first.

xfce more like KFCe amirite

i3

Openbox + tint2

XFCE since it doesn't get updates that breaks it every other month

You can try out a few (maybe like a week each) and use the one you like best

Openbox windows manager (the core part of LXDE and LXQt desktop environments)

Kvantum theme engine, arc-dark-kde theme, papirus dark icon theme

what i like is i3 for the following reasons:
-easy to configure
-default config is nice
-multimonitor is a breeze and joy to use
-nm-applet works with the default bar so no fuckery there

if you don't like it or as a fallback install xfce.
i3+arch is a meme for a reason.

Xmonad > KDE > openbox > i3 > sway > Budgie > Cinnamon > XFCE
Anything else is for brainlets

KDE.

But whatever you DE you try will look like shit when first installed. GNOME, Unity, KDE, XFCE all of them are ugly at first. This is off putting at the start if you've got a night free, customizing is both easy and extensive. youtube.com/watch?v=RSBMn6eGH88&t=1s this video gives an idea of how to customize even if this isn't the look you want.

This.

Grest thing about KDE is that you can make it look like almost anything. There's a shitload of themes and iconpacks around and you can put the task bars etc where you want them, if you want them.

I think SDDM plays together best with KDE desktop.

i think same

Nice