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I’m currently testing Fedora KDE on a VM (windows host) before eventually switching over to Linux completely.

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[–] beef_curds@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Gnome. Mostly vanilla except for some extended tiling for when I need it. Also sped up animations.

I bind Activities to an extra mouse button. But I'm also comfortable without that.

I've used a lot of stuff over the years. Started with the kde 3 series. I just don't really want to do a lot of fiddling anymore, and find the default Gnome workflow to be a really good fit for me.

[–] danielfgom@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Cinnamon at the moment because I'm running LMDE 6. After that it would be gnome however it does have a higher RAM usage. I find Gnome based DE's easier to read and understand.

Whereas KDE just confuses me with its illegible font, awful icons (especially in Libre Office) and the nonsensical horizontal blue lines in some settings.

[–] fcuks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I love the swipey gesture workflow on gnome on the laptop

[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago
[–] danHD@mastodon.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@governorkeagan gnome, comes cause it doesnt look like windows

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[–] Bratwurstboy@iusearchlinux.fyi 0 points 2 years ago

Gnome, sometimes XFCE on older hardware.

[–] imgel@lemmy.ml -5 points 2 years ago

KDE if you want a customizable DE, Gnome if you like simplicity and XFCE if you are on less than 4GB. Anything else is mental illness mixed with boomer nostalgia.

[–] Astaroth@lemm.ee -5 points 2 years ago

I don't like any DEs, tbh both KDE Plasma and Cinnamon felt worse than Win7 DE. And I'll never ever even try Gnome

But I absolutely love WMs, I use i3wm

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