Bottom left is Awesome WM. Ask me anything or tell us your picks!

(and feel free to tear me apart on my picks)

  • Mistress Remilia@lemmy.cyberia9.org
    1·
    1 day ago
    • Fave: Sawfish WM
    • First: Either KDE3 or Xfce, not sure which one was first
    • Future: Sawfish hopefully
    • Least Fav: Gnome, anything that’s tiling
    • Current: Sawfish
    • Longest: Either Sawfish or Xfce, not sure which
    • Honorable Mention: amiwm because it actually has the pull-down-the-screen thing
    • Current Distro: Slackware
  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Hehe. I love these. I wonder what’s next? Text editors? Web browsers? Terminal emulators? Init systems?

    fave;current;future;longest: xmonad. least: gnome3. first: K.D.E.3. honourable: herbstluftwm

    I was a mite tempted to make a logo for my xmonad config, that I’ve whimsically been calling a window manager, called Tabularboonad for about 14 years. But really, it’s just an xmonad config.

    I was a mite tempted to attempt to wrangle some contrived reasoning, and positioning on the chart, for my wminizer scripts, since (similar to the prior distro one, with my bedrocklinux use), I do not limit myself to just one wm (or distro), and really, I can switch between any window managers I have installed (and have listed in one of wmnizer’s wmrotate scripts (or the selection list, in the wmnizer2 branch)), such as xmonad, dwm, herbstluftwm, spectrwm, dk, icewm, openbox, without restarting X11(Xorg/XLibre/Pheonix/TinyX), keeping all my gui running seamlessly, as I switch wm in a split second. … So if following the logic of BedrockLinux, that it’s the distro I use, not the multitudes within/upon it, then instead of xmonad (+^)I should say wminizer [(oops, just realised i misspelled wminizer as wmnizer in the rudimentary logo I hastily scribbled for it earlier [when tempted use it here], lol, doh.)]. But, that’s not the same. Doesn’t feel right to try use that logic.

    I suppose I should not have been so surprised to see xmonad show up so much in this one.

    Whee. These are fun.

    • Mistiy@lemmy.zipOP
      2·
      3 days ago

      wasn’t really planning on making another one, but yknow what? Maybe I will make one for web browsers

  • kinther@lemmy.world
    121·
    7 days ago

    First: Gnome Favorite: Gnome Longest Used: Gnome Least Favorite: KDE Current: Gnome Future: Gnome

    Used Cinnamon, KDE, XFCE in the past. Bucking the trend, I think Gnome is fine and does what I need it to do. You do you, though. That’s what is great about Linux.

      • serendepity@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 days ago

        What sort of issues do you run into with GNOME w/ Nvidia? I’m curious because it has been rock solid for me with 5070ti on a laptop.

        • TheHound@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 days ago

          The most maddening behavior with alt tab. Let’s say I have 4 windows open on a single desktop split on a single monitor. [A|B] and [C|D]. C and D become best buddies, if I alt tab from A to D to reference something, A loses focus and I get both C and D visible. It becomes impossible to look at A and D together. Had no issues with sway/Wayland/nvidia. Nor with xfce but trying to let x be dead. Don’t have the issue with gnome/Wayland on Intel chips.

          • serendepity@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 days ago

            That does sound frustrating tbh. Do you think something similar to macOS’s stage manager to help your use-case? I built an extension to enable Window previews in the dock and I’m wondering if it might be useful to add that as a feature.

      • kinther@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 days ago

        I’m an AMD fan so I haven’t ran into that issue. I could see how that is a problem though.

        • TheHound@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 days ago

          Non deterministic alt tabbing with arbitrary “buddy windows” is the most frustrating desktop experience imaginable. It’s less bad without nvidia in the mix but still seen it happen with Intel chips as well. Moved back to sway for tiling goodness and my sanity is restored.

  • greasewizard@slrpnk.net
    5·
    6 days ago

    I like hyprland, even tho the devs are assholes

    I’m open to switching to similar tiling WMs but I’ve put a lot of time into my current config

    • Moshpirit@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      I use sway, but I see that Niri is getting a lot of attention during the past months/years. Maybe you can use some AI to convert one config into the other and manually fix here and there while (ironically) keeping Hyprland as a safe place to go if something goes wrong

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
    3·
    6 days ago

    Here we go, because why not:

    Favorite: LXQt+i3. LXQt plays nice with tiling WMs, GTK and Qt, and it’s just way easier than installing a WM on its own. Tiling WMs are GOAT.

    Honorable Mention: Crunchbang/early Bunsenlabs and Cinnamon Least Favorite: Gnome

    First: probably Openbox on Crunchbang

    Current: LXQt+i3

    Longest Used: LXQt+i3

    Future: sway, possibly with LXQt if I make the switch after the LXQt devs finish providing Wayland support.

  • Jolteon@lemmy.zip
    6·
    7 days ago

    Favorite: Cinnamon.
    Honorable Mention: KDE.
    Least Favorite: Gnome.
    First: Gnome.
    Current: Cinnamon.
    Longest Used: KDE.
    Future: Cinnamon

  • Laurel Raven@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    Favorite: KDE.

    Least Favorite: Gnome, but I’ve not tried a ton… It’s slick but way too opinionated for my tastes. I could change most of what bothers me about it with add-ons and mods, but KDE gives me the controls I want out of the box, and lets you do damned near anything you want before you even start installing mods (I don’t understand the person who thinks it’s too limited and Gnome is more flexible, but different priorities, I guess)

    First DE: KDE on XanderOS… To be fair, the name sounded cool to young me and I didn’t know much of anything about the different Linux distros yet. And I think Ubuntu either wasn’t around yet or hadn’t gotten well enough known for me to have spotted it initially

    Honorable Mention: Unity… Love it or hate it, Ubuntu was trying something actually interesting and I think it’s a shame they didn’t stick with it longer

    Current DE: KDE

    Potential Future DE: not sure, KDE does everything I want at this time, but I might give Cosmic a try, and/or a tiling WM, though I suspect I won’t care for it (I’ll give it a real shot to convince me, I just don’t see the appeal)

    Longest used DE: KDE

    Current distro: Mint with KDE shoehorned in, though will be OpenSuSE Tumbleweed in a couple hours (I love Mint but I’m tired of fighting with old packages and drivers, and suspect that might be the cause of graphics stack crashes that have plagued me… Also because I’m tired of waiting for KDE 6 for years now and it’ll be probably mid next year still before it’s available on Mint, and even then still only as an afterthought)

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 days ago

      I’m a Unity denier since childbirth. In hindsight it feels like Apple lite.

      POP! Os pulls it off pretty well I think.

  • Catt (she/her)@programming.dev
    2·
    6 days ago

    First DE used was definitely Cinnamon. Longest use should be awesome or i3, mah be close. Least favourite definitely awesome though, due to the way you have to configure it. It’s just such a mess. My favourite is also my current: herbstluftwm. Configuring it is actually fun (Btw, I am not into ricing, I am rather implementing unnecessary things). And I am still waiting for a wm which would actually convince me to use on wayland. That one would be the future wm^^