Cinnamon the target has decent specs, Xfce for toasters. Everything else is a waste of time.
There's too much distro shitposting and not enough DE shitposting
Charles Allen
Carson Murphy
but budgie depends on gnome, and cinnamon is better than both, if you got the ram to spare anyway...
Jayden Gomez
>>>/g/
Josiah Jackson
This. It takes a little fine tuning and minor styling to make it more useful, but it's very good. I'm getting up there in age though, so I have little time to extensively rice my setup. Gnome just works.
Mason Bennett
install gantoo
Landon Price
Being on the linux world since not much, and I started with Ubuntu MATE. Good style with good starting tools, not bloated, and user-friendly interface. Then again, is my first distro, and altought I used virtual machine for testing multiple distros & DE, its not the same. In what ways should i test a DE to truly see how it is? And with XFCE being so much recommended, I would like to ask what, besides being light and low spec, advantages have the DE over the others, or at least over MATE?
So MATE isnt? Cinnamon its just Windows environment copy+pasted. Mate at least have something new or not as much windows like style.
Jose Taylor
Mostly because a lot of applications use GTK, which look ugly with a primarily Qt desktop. Especially LibreOffice, which uses its own "adaptive" toolkit that looks even worse than native GTK on KDE.
Easton Perry
James Carter
Just started using bspwm and it fucking rocks, kicks the shit out of i3. Supports gaps out of the box. If you can't configure it you're probably a nigger. Default keybindings of sxhkd kick ass and take names. Only took me 2-3 minutes to get it up and running and it works fantastically. Highly recommend.
I will be using it for the next few years at the very least.
Ryder Lee
Anything decent for hi-res displays? xrandr scaling is unusably slow on some of my systems
KDE seems best for scaling so far, but it does crash on me from time to time
Gnome might be decent (except that it also crashes) and removing the shitbar at the top or the titlebar of maximized windows always feels hacky. Scaling is better than most but not as complete as KDE's
xfce is pretty comfy except that it also crashes and scaling is limited to fonts or xrandr
if I could figure out how to get it to work smoothly with battery notifications and other DE-like stuff, I might try i3 or awesome-wm again some day
I'm not much familiar with others... Am I missing out?