/tech/ - Soyence and Technology

Gnome looks like a caca's iPad or a tablet with android geg

>>42700
It's also unoptimized and runs like shit compared to other DEs

Marge what gnome forks?

>>42745
I used to use MATE, a fork of GNOME 2. I liked its simplicity and focus on mouse and keyboard rather than GNOME's niggerlicious pivot to touchscreen devices but it's rather lacking in features compared to big DEs like KDE, if that's what you're looking for. And if you (like me) want simplicity, you're better off just using a WM.

>>42748
I forgot about MATE geg, i remember liking it but it sadly is a dnb (no updates since 2024)

>>42783
Cinnamon is also a fork of Guhnome

>>42783
Why does it need updates tho it works fine as it is

I've been a window manager user for quite a while now. I've only started going back through the DE's to see if I can find anything I actually like. So far I've been pretty disappointed with most things I've tried.

I was hoping cosmic would match what I want, but it largely just feels unfinished still. Also the tiling mode is basically i3 like tiling which sucks.

gnome is gnome. Honstly it's not that bad all things considered, but it still feels clunky compared to the WM's I'm used to using.

KDE seems okish. Still feels clunky to me, and it's obviously just trying to go for a windows like feel in a lot of ways. Which I'm not a huge fan of.

Budgie there isn't a lot to this one. It's kind of meh. not a lot to it.

I've used xfce in the past, it's light weight and stable, also pretty highly configurable but it's not exactly in the end I think I would prefer to just use a window manager by itself. Since one of the main reasons I would use this in the past was because I could swap in my tiling Wm with xfce's builtin one.

Cinnamon I'm going to have to try again. My memory of it was that it was actually pretty good and surprisingly light weight. Maybe I'll like this one.

XFCE and Cinnamon are the best. KDE is good but it’s got some bloat, and it killed Xorg support recently, so you can only use it on Loonix and not BSDs.

cinnamon vvqn btw

>>42830
> so you can only use it on Loonix and not BSDs

you can for sure use it on freebsd. I haven't tried running wayland on openbsd though. But I think running kde on openbsd makes no sense in the first place anyway

XFCE is by far the nicest and smoothest experience I've had. You can use it like a window manager but you don't have to deal with programs fighting with it because it's still a normal desktop basically. Also if you want to keep using X it's good, I think KDE and GNOME dropped support but I'm not sure.

I had a custom setup where I had XFCE installed but changed the window manager to i3. I generally prefer not having a desktop environment because I really don't need all that extra stuff but if you like that kinda thing I would say it was pretty gemmy. There was a weird problem in MPV where the blue window border thing would appear in the window and be mostly translucent, that was annoying, it's probably fixed now tho maybe btw.

>>42689 (OP)
cinnamon is good but i still prefer gnome

>>42844
>wayland on openbsd
why would you genuinely consider using openbsd for anything other than server ?

>>42972
It gets the job done as long as you’re not into vidya, and plus Wayland is intrinsically more secure than Xorg due to native window sandboxing and having a smaller codebase among other features.

Speaking of wayland, mangowm is nice if you are happy with a tilling window manager.

I uses kde

Mate

KDE has been brapping a lot for me lately after using the same install for almost 1 year (looks like the 'ki was right). Moving to Cinnamon, I'll play in a vm with it first.

I have fond memories of using lxqt back in the day
Stuff has changed a lot since then and I don't use a DE nowadays

>>43218
What do you use then?

>>43223
I've patched and compiled my build of DWM which I use on all my computers.

>>43224
Giga. What patches do you use?

>>43230
dwm-autostart-20210120-cb3f58a.diff
dwm-autostart-20210120-cb3f58a.diff
dwm-systray-20230922-9f88553.diff
This is on DWM 6.6

>>43231
Fucked up the paste
dwm-autostart-20210120-cb3f58a.diff
dwm-statusallmons-6.5.diff
dwm-systray-20230922-9f88553.diff

ubuntu unity

>>42689 (OP)
gnome is enough i really don't care about the de itself

>>43233
good choice sir

>>43233
isn't ubuntu unity maintained by a sole indian child nowadays?