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I wanted to get a feel for everyone’s thoughts on desktop environments (or window managers if you don’t use a DE). I’m new to Lemmy, so apologies if this is too low-effort a post.

Personally I’m running KDE on my main computer, but I have an Arch virtual machine I use for more experimentation. That VM has seen KDE, i3, and will probably see hyprland at some point soon

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[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm using xfce. It's on endeavros as I like to belong to the arch crowd without working with the lengthly set up from scratch.

I prefer xfce as anything of note is accessible with a few minor exceptions due to endeavros security concerns such as Bluetooth which requires a quick systemctl command.

I started off with it after discovering ubuntu and trying the xfce version. I liked it and went through a few distros including crunchbang with openbox but ultimately xfce is a very straightforward experience for me and fairly customisable. The only drawback is it doesn't look like some of the awesome screenshots I've seen of i3 or other tiling managers but as a teacher I don't do development or have that much knowledge to tinker so xfce is my go-to.

[–] funkajunk@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Arch now has a guided installer that makes it just as easy as any other distro

https://youtu.be/bDzGfAxWxC8

[–] BelAZ75710@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

XFCE is also very light on resources looks better than LXDE so I always install XFCE on old laptops.