What are your favorites? What do you recommend and why?
>>51565472
lxde.
It opens programs.
Cinnamon
>up to date technology
>not bloated and retarded like KDE/gnome
>not woefully outdated
>simple desktop experience
>comfy
>>51565519
this.
or xfce
mate
Gnome
>at the forefront of new tech such as Wayland
>best looking and most polished DE
>not bloated like KDE
>not ugly like Cinnamon
>not dead like Xfeces
>extension ecosystem
>intuitive and simple, no learning curve
>just werks
>>51565472
By the way, why do people always post these ridiculously outdated and ugly screenshots of Gnome?
People use DEs that aren't gnome? The fuck?
I hated gnome3 until I tried it. Now I run gnome on top of arch and it's wonderful. Even my humanities major friends can use it with no problem
Elementary OS/Pantheon
I don't understand why people hate on it, saying it's pretty but not usable. You can still install whatever you want as far as i've seen
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>>51566431
Did the Gnome team finally roll back the retarded removal of features they did on Nautilus? When they removed type ahead and dual panels over some bullshit reasons I just couldn't keep up with their shit anymore.
Gnome.Every one of my installs gets Gnome and i3.
>Using a DE
I tried using DE's but they always feel so bloated to me. I'll stick with tiling window managers.
>>51566491
Elementary OS is a newcomer and I don't see what they offer aside from a shitty pre-Yosemite OS X theme. And there was that drama concerning donations.
>>51566577
I don't know what you mean by type ahead, and as far as I can tell there are no dual panels. I don't understand what the point of dual panels are. Just open another window.
>>51566662
Gnome isn't very bloated and DEs are useful because they take care of a lot of tedious shit for you.
>>51566577
No, they didn't. In fact, the copy dialog for nautilus is hidden in the latest fedora. I like gnome shell, but goddamn they need to stop removing features.
>>51566697
Type ahead is selecting a file in the current directory by typing the first letters of its name when browsing files in a file browser/manager. Even Windows Explorer has this feature but Gnome devs changed it on Nautilus to perform a recursive search in the current folder. I don't remember the reasoning the head dev gave for this and other apps changes in that version but I do remember it was total bullshit.
>>51566662
Good luck with your productivity
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