What's your preferred desktop environment on Gentoo and why?
Preferred DE on Gentoo?
Nathan King
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Charles Ward
dwm. Smallest amount of dependencies and easiest configuration. Also runs on musl+libressl pretty well.
If I'm on Wayland it's Sway+wterm for the same reasons.
Alexander Jenkins
I've never run a tiling WM before, but I'm thinking of giving it a shot. The simplicity appeals to me, but I've always been too lazy. I'm about halfway through installing Gentoo on my desktop and as long as I'm learning all this new stuff I figure I might as well learn how to config a tiling wm as well... how does configuration differ on dwm as compared to others?
Lincoln Nguyen
You do the config through changing the source files and patching them, mainly config.h/config.def.h.
I wouldn't be able to tell you as I've always used dwm and I use Sway with it's default configuration pretty much.
Joseph Torres
any answer that isnt "none" is bloat
Nathan Lewis
there's always one of you in every thread
Josiah Russell
If you're not down with trying a tiling WM go with XFCE or "build your own" DE starting with OpenBox
Isaiah Walker
KDE
Samuel Reyes
Dwm
Luke Morris
KDE, because it's the best on any distro
Jeremiah Cooper
WindowMaker
Camden Flores
try kde somewhere else if you're not sure tbf, took me a whole day to install the thing and I didn't like it
Luis Gonzalez
What's the appeal of Sway?
Blake Myers
dwm
Liam Moore
Awesome WM, because it's a nice tiling WM that does everything I want it to do.
Also "on Gentoo" isn't really useful, is it? Gentoo has basically the same selection of DE/WM as the other distros.
Brayden Powell
Xfce, Gnome is cancer.
Jack Murphy
You don't even need to know any programming.
Just read the comments in config.h
And follow this
Nolan Lee
why is xfce so old and riddled with bugs?
Kayden Ortiz
I used to love kde, but i wanted something more minimal.
I used to love xfce, but wanted something less buggy and even more minimal.
I used to love i3, but i wanted even something more minimal and i was wasting too much time ricing shit.
Now i use dwm.
William Perez
>dwm
Nathaniel Torres
this
dwm is just a normie friendly version of xmonad
Tyler Peterson
I'm sold. Gonna use it when ubuntu 19 is out
Juan Sanchez
Just get it now
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Jacob Morgan
laughing my goddamn ass off at the idea of installing dwm using your package manager
Logan Lopez
You are right.
git clone git.suckless.org
Ryan Diaz
With Gentoo's portage package manager you can use the 'savedconfig' flag for dwm to make your config changes persistent.
Aiden Long
I liked exwm for a long time because I'm an emacs enthusiast. Currently using XFCE though.
Jose Cox
so much wisdom
Colton Taylor
Jose Lewis
>What's your preferred desktop environment on Gentoo
Emacs with EXWM
>and why?
Because it's comfy as heck.
Noah Peterson
KDE
It just werks and doesn't look and feel like a toy
Aiden Parker
The appeal is it being the only decent tilling wm available for Wayland.