>Spend a day cycling through Ubuntu flavors to look for a desktop
>MATE breaks when you try to change the panel layout
>GNOME Nvidia performance is dogshit, minimally configurable if at all
>XFCE bricks completely when you try to customize it or remove components you don't want
>KDE's defaults are horrible but it JUST WERKS
>Good framerates, good compositing, nice and stable, fast applications
Well, guess I'm just stuck with KDE now. Why is it the best DE?
I've been using KDE Neon lately and I'm actually enjoying it.
best DE is no DE
this post is made by i3 gang
imagine using X
this post is made by framebuffer gang
cock test
>cock test
i see you havent had the chance to use yours yet
Kde neon m8
You can trick out kde with a little elbow grease
this
> Why is it the best DE?
It isn't, Unity is more user friendly, looks better and saves more screen space by default
As much as I like KDE the only DE that works with xorgxrdp and doesn't shit the bed when you install the minimal is LXQt.
Is KDE really that good and stable nowadays? It's always been my favorite, but I've had a few attempts in the past few years to use it but it would always run into issues like Plasma crashing/restarting spontaneously or things like not saving panel settings properly, especially with multiple monitors.
>Why is it the best DE?
XFCE, always.
BTW what "components" did you removed ?
Because I never experienced this "bricks" thing.
>Well, guess I'm just stuck with KDE now. Why is it the best DE?
Because this cute little guy is the KDE mascot!
>imagine not using net installer to install Ubuntu minimal and then installing i3
>>XFCE bricks completely when you try to customize it or remove components you don't want
let's have a wild guess: you removed a dependency, even after apt-get was SCREAMING AT YOU that this is a dependency needed by something else? top fucking kek.
>Not using a tiling manger in this current year of our lord.
this board seems to attract more computer illiterates than people with any clue.
nice meme
best DE coming through
Debian doesn’t have those problems
>i3
Inferior to bspwm
openbox + pcmanfm --desktop +tint2
what else do you need?
Fucking this!
Since you're distro hopping already you might as well try out Q4OS.
>basically just Debian with some repos added for the desktop and stuff
>includes non-free firmware out of the box like Ubuntu so your hardware works
>comes with a well configured Trinity desktop environment (a KDE 3.5 fork)
>uses a fraction of the resources that Gnome does and half of what Plasma uses
forgot image
>GNOME Nvidia performance is dogshit
are you using free driver?
>minimally configurable if at all
yay -Ss gnome-shell-extension
~ $ yay -Ss gnome-shell | wc -l
460
thats 220 packages you can add on top of your gnome shell
Enlightenment the only way
slight correction, the previous search included some themes
~ $ yay -Ss gnome-shell-extension | wc -l
344
172 extensions
I'd rather have my eyes bleached than stare at that desktop
Heheyy, I remember this uniquely aesthetic rice.
Did you ever manage to find out the name of the font you're using?
Anyone who used XFCE years ago will be surprised by the dependencies today.
How do I choose a tiling wm? Which has the sanest defaults?
That fucking font sucks, and that shitty nonsensical weeb image obscures the desktop bar, which btw why is it in fucking greyscale
have a look on unixporn for something you like and has the config files posted.
i3 is the ubuntu of twms
That font is sweet. What's it called?
just choose i3, it takes maybe an hour to into. Or if your gonna steal from unixporn, it'll likely be the i3-gaps fork you'll be downloading
>Q4OS.
Looks nice dude.
lubuntu is based and just works. just may have to tweak it a little bit to make it enjoyable
Cinnamon is unironically the best DE.
Gnome is really nice if you drop the ridiculous preconception that it's minimally configurable and actually have a look around.
This
ubuntu budgie maybe?
always wondered, whats the difference between mate and cinammon? aren't they both the same "gnome 2 was the best amirite lmao" meme after all?
i3 is only viable for laptops, gnome is the only one usable sadly
yeah, but Jow Forums will hate it because is the most popular
Sorry about that I was going to post it in the last thread but it got deleted
It's Cinzel
Started using kde few years ago, haven't really been able to go back.
KDE is fugly out of the box, but after ricing it just werks and doesn't lag like GNOME
I am absolutely convinced that nobody actually uses gnome and it's some kind of massive inside joke I'm not in on
I hopped from Arch to KDE Neon last month to verify the meme
Absolutely loving it.
Thanks Jow Forums
T. Footfag
either use bspwm or kys. i3 is shit
I come back even though it is slower because KDE has too many options. Also often breaks visually for me
How do you aquire Q4?
What is it?
I always stuck to Xfeces or Cinnamon, never heard of Q4
>devs dont listen to user feedback
>CSD
>resource hog while providing no features
>removing features every update
>no file picker thumbnails
gnome is ass cancer
mate = gnome 2
cinnamon = gnome 3
>because KDE has too many options
gnome is for brainlets confirmed
You can even do tiling with kwin scripts
But plasma uses 350mb something ram..
let him be autistic, he uses Linux to feel leet. Some day he will have to do shit on a new laptop and he will just use whatever he can get on an official iso by default.
Kde connect, activities, folder widget, note widget and nice effects.
I have openbox for vnc and if I need a faster environment.
Arigato, it's great. The only bothersome thing is its lack of lowercase characters.
Do you know of any way I could use it with strictly the Plasma panel?
I'm here to checkem
I would say that you can set it for general. I personally only need case sensitive text when writing stuff.
I'm a bit strange but by default lower case is noticeably smaller then uppercase.
for me it's cinnamon
just install windows 7 faggot
gnome is slow and bloated javashit
>not just dual booting
it's like you aren't even good with computers or something
no
>not running win7 in a vm
do you even computers bro
what's next, you're gonna tell me to use passthrough graphics? Fuck no. Windows is for gaymen and I want all the performance I can get past the bloat
looks PROFFESIONAL af. It's everything by default or did you install anything? May give fedora cinnamon a spin
its cinnamon with adpata theme and mint y icons. those are installed by default on fedora
imagine not using X
this post is made by ncurses gang
>Xfce bricks
Lolwut
Deepin is chink shit but good lord it's beautiful
lxqt with kwin has all the advantages of kde with none of the demerits
gnome 3 with extensions is unironically better than cinnamon, but even without extensions, cinnamon has been deprecated by budgie and deepin
cinnamon is more like vista than 7
>he doesnt know about budgie
Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior kevin?
Yes. Only consistent issue I've had is the shutdown prompt failing to trigger a shutdown or restart and crashing. Seems to be a quirk of my motherboard.
No, apt-get doesn't scream that it's a dependency used by something else. In fact, on Ubuntu I've deleted VLC, bricking my system via dependencies, and apt didn't say a word. Thanks the lord for minimal installs. This is probably why Xubuntu doesn't have a minimal option yet. Core seems to have up and disappeared.
And I don't like that installing compiz and using --replace can leave you without a window chrome.
>You have to install all the WM packages and yadda yadda
I don't fucking care. Give me a button. I'm not wasting my time with this shit anymore, I'm no longer a bored teenager.
I already tried i3 for a while and got fucking annoyed. I don't want to spend time constantly customizing and tweaking my system. I have shit to do. I've convinced 90% of the people who waste time turning their i3 into unix porn don't have any shit to do.
the fuck
Proprietary driver. Shit framerates, shit application responsiveness (detectable lag starting, minimizing, maximizing, moving, etc). No, I'm not piling more Javascript extensions on top of that, sorry. And it's been like that for years. I used to use Fedora and it was the same story back then.
I don't want to have a look around. Sure, Dash-to-Panel is nice, but it's not KDE.
I'll consider it after the move to Qt.
I dual-boot already. I actually need Linux for work you dumb nigger. I know chronic distro and OS hoppers have no idea what work is since they've never needed a stable machine.
Unironically this. I've always liked Unity because it worked for me and got out of my way the most. The saving of vertical space was great. Since Unity was abandoned I've been distro hopping like crazy to find another DE that feels as comfy to me.
>XFCE bricks completely when you try to customize it or remove components you don't want
Xfce is very stable, and is generally regarded as one of the more customizable DE's. You likely just removed one of its dependencies and dragged the whole thing down with it.
Having said that Xfce and Cinnamon are both top tier and worth considering.
Last time I used Xfce I couldn't even set a primary monitor properly. New windows always opened on the leftmost monitor regardless of my settings in the control center or xrandr.
>GNOME
>minimally configurable if at all
Shell Extensions, GTK3 themes and tweak tool, my nigga.
KDE does the opacity shit better.
Budgie does the notification pane better.
>Javascript and shit API that breaks/is changed every update
>Hated by Gnome's own devs and Theme designers hate making themes for it
>Having to install a program to add options that even Windows features OOTB
Just use Windows if you're willing to make so many sacrifices.
the fuck
This thread is relevant to my interests because I'm new to Linux and someone suggested I use KDE Neon User edition so I installed it yesterday. Bugs out the ass straight away. Extreme screen tearing, unresponsive software, monitor shutting down on startup after login. It's funny you say "it just works" because I had the opposite impression. Although it hasn't been that bad in the previous hours.
How do you do this?
What hardware are you on? KDE might be a little rough around the edges, but not nearly as bad as that.
Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83Ghz
4GB DDR3 1333
120GB SSD
What GPU?
Oh sorry I forgot. A shitty Radeon X300.
>Radeon X300
I'm not sure about GPUs that old, but it seems to support openGL 2.0 so I think you're fine. Is the compositor on? It's under display&monitor. If it's on, try different vsync settings. You might wanna disable the animations too.
>>XFCE bricks completely when you try to customize it or remove components you don't want
The fuck are you talking about. Been using xfce literally for years. Never once has it "bricked" when I've customised it.
Here's some advice on removing stuff from you menu - askubuntu.com
And here's some advice on how to keep your machine lean - maketecheasier.com
I switched it off now.
Nah, keep it on - this is what prevents screen tearing. I suppose if it's giving you problems you should disable it, but I'm not sure about the other vsync solutions.
As long as no distro can do a GUI-supported way of enabling a stable per monitor scaling settings, the whole thing is a no-go for me. That stuff is literally pre-2010 stuff on Windows, yet on linux it is still not possible.
No it doesn't. It uses around 500 idle. TDE can run comfortably in as little as 250MB of RAM. The minimum requirement for Q4OS is 128MB.
I carefully research all my hardware for Linux compatibility before making a purchase because I'm not a shit sucking moron like you. If Ubuntu will boot, so will Q4OS.
This will help you to install just the desktop on a distro you may already have installed: trinitydesktop.org
This will help you to install Trinity+Debian+non-free drivers+all the default themes from my screenshot, and it does it all with an ISO small enough to fit on a CD. This is the easiest option for noobs: q4os.org
Did you even try budgie. If I ever go back to a *buntu that’s probably what I’ll use