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What desktop enviroment do you use and why? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So a few months back I asked about you guys os in c/asklemmy, so this time I wanna ask about your desktops you use on this same account.
(I use kde but plan to move to cinnamon I find kde buggy and gnome tracker3 randomly broke for no reason + themeing so yh idk if these happened to anybody)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Cinnamon. Desktop environment peaked in the Windows XP/Gnome 2 days and everything else is just change for the shake of change. :C

My only annoyance is lack of Wayland support. Tried out cosmic, but it doesn't have the Windows XP/Gnome 2 style window list.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i agree with wayland, but in cinnamon there is experimental wayland support.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is, but I use a hipster keyboard layout and they don't support alternate keyboard layouts yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Agreed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Me too, and it sorta has Wayland support, but it's not real good. I also like Cosmic, I think it has a good future ahead of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I tried Cosmic and quite liked it. Just waiting for them to add a gnome 2 style window list widget with the window names.