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

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Mwa@thelemmy.club to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] grapemix@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Enlightenment. It's pretty and really fast. Of course you can't complete with the speed of tile wm. But their development speed is so slow....

[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've been experimenting with DEs on a low end machine (celeron n3010, 2gb ram), and so far, I'm still on xfce, but I forgot to test Enlightenment. Gonna give it a try.

[–] grapemix@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I install enlightenment in a asus netbook. Still working. Haven't updated for so long. ~10 yrs?

[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

May I ask what distro you're using?

[–] grapemix@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Bodhi. I tried to compile by myself first. But it sometimes won't work. Too much trouble. Bodhi is simply easy and allow me to stay in Ubuntu/Debian based, as long as you don't need really new packages. But we have flatpak, right?

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm shocked I had to scroll this far for the first fluxbox/Enlightenment/windowmaker user