KDE vs Gnome Shell vs Xfce
What you prefer
Trolls will say unity hahahahahha
>>54203870
KDE since it's them best.
>that kernel
Is this from the 90's?
>>54203943
Ubuntu Mate XDD
>>54203870
Plasma 5
>>54203870
I don't use it any more (i3) but Plasma 5 is my favourite.
dat wasted space on kde m8s, almost made me puck
>>54204086
Nice Desktop!!! same graphics card than mine
>>54203870
Gnome, with dash to dock set up as a panel.
>>54204156
Same card here too
I tried KDE a lot of short times but it never likes me...
Now with the LTS of the Kubuntu i will try it in about 20-30 days and give it a chance hahaha
>>54203870
KDE doesn't work.
Gnome is crap
XFCE is old hat
Unity is ok.
MATE is best though HI-DPI is shite.
im the OP and if you want to show your linux desktop here you can do it.... >D
was always an xfce fan but that was ten years ago
they all feel pretty much identical to me now
unity a shit
>>54204240
Mate looks too old too !!!!
>>54203870
I guess I prefer GNOME because it just werks for me, but I haven't tried KDE in a long time.
>>54204240
Absolutely this 100%
>>54204278
Remove bottom panel, use a modern theme, use a modern launcher.
No troll, Unity is actually really good now.
>not using a tiling WM
shitty plebs
>>54204475
>No troll, Unity is actually really good now.
Linux peasant?¿¿
>>54204470
what modern launcher works with mate?
>>54204480
will prob never leave tiling desu, its too good
except with matlab
>>54204475
have they figured out how to manage hotkeys?
>>54204480
I actually used i3 for like 4 years, but once I discovered tmux, I realized tiling wasn't worth the effort.
>>54204475
>unity
>good
Oh sweet summer child..
>menus up top ala macfags
>hidden menus because fuck you
>hidden scroll bars
>screen-filling search/start menu ala winfags
>privacy issues by default
>le flat design maymay
0/10 kys
>>54203870
Xfce best
>>54203870
I'm torn between XFCE and KDE. I'm running kubuntu now that 16.04 came out and plasma 5.6 is finally stable on it. I'm liking it so far, but I'm just used to XFCE. I'll probably stick with kde for a while.
>>54204623
Try using Kwin with Xfce, imo it's the only good thing about KDE
>>54204599
>>hidden menus because fuck you
It looks sooooo good my friend!!
>>54204587
>unity
>flat design
What the fuck?
>privacy issues
Not on 16.04
>>54204660
Eh, having shit like screen snapping showing a preview and not just doing it on it's own, windows being transparent when moving, and an icon-only taskbar set up by default are nice. I know XFCE can do all of that (once dockbarx gets updated at least), but it's nice having everything just werk ootb.
>tiling window managers
disgusting, it's 2016, 2016!
>>54204541
>he doesn't know R
whatever the Windows desktop environment is called
I wanna say DWM but that is just the window manager
>>54204726
this is true
>>54204660
kwin is the reason kde uses so much resources though.
People who complain about kde usually brings up how they are unable to use any of the features and it uses too much resources.
twm
>>54203870
Unity.
Fuck GNOME Shell's absolutely abysmal performance.
KDE is pretty nice though.
As for Xfce, I fail to see its purpose.
If you want your DE to be lightweight, there are better options available, such LXDE, LXQt or standalone WMs such as OpenBox.
If you want a feature rich desktop, there is GNOME, Unity, KDE, Cinnamon, Mate etc.
Lumina
>>54203870
xfce
-light
-customizable at sane levels
-no innoveshun
-works without systemd
>>54204822
Also, forgot the picture.
>>54204853
Fake. Post screenshot of running emerge
>>54203870
>KDE vs Gnome Shell vs Xfce
First, your question is shit. Gnome shell isn't a desktop environment.
Second, you forgot LXDE.
Third, retards in this thread are so stupid that they are posting their WM.
Fourth, who the fuck uses a desktop environment anymore? Pic related
Kde in Antergos and life is beautiful..
>>54204726
R and matlab is not the same software.
Unless you for some weird reason only use matlab to script things, R can't replace it.
>>54204086
Nice Icons m8, mind sharing?
Gnome if you want pretty
Kde if you want functional.
Xfce if you want neither
How am I doing?
>>54205034
The name of the icon theme is literally in the screenshot
>>54205034
>>54205053
It's not. It's actually Evolvere Vivid Sunken Dark.
https://github.com/franksouza183/EvolvereSuit
>>54205053
you're sorely mistaken if you think there's just one icon theme you have to set in KDE.
You have to set icon themes for every different component.
>>54203870
xfce ftw my friend!
>>54205319
That's fucking disgusting m8.
>>54204441
Wall?
>>54204926
We had this discussion multiple times already.
>>54205403
so why gentoo?
>>54205433
>portage
>true multilib system
>slotting
>source based distribution
>USE flags
>huge official repositories that don't only include FOSS software
>overlays
>modern packages
>stable
Also, CFLAGS kicking in
>>54205494
Does Gentoo have a software repository as big as the AUR?
>>54204599
I really like this
>>54205523
Gentoo's official repositories are way bigger than Arch's.
If something isn't in the official repos, it's most likely available through an overlay.
>>54203870
XFCE till KDE is bugfree.
>>54205557
I doubt that it is bigger, sincerely.
>>54205385
how about this?
>>54205567
Gentoo has 18k, arch has 13k
(only counting official for both)
am i doing it right?
>>54205403
shopped
>>54205593
Install oxygen-gtk please. I almost forgot how awful always has been firefox under kde, thanks.
>>54205567
Arch
>5846 matching packages found. Page 1 of 59.
This includes only x86_64 packages in core, extra and community repos. Arch otherwise counts each arch twice.
>2966 matching packages found. Page 1 of 30.
This is for multiple architectures.
Gentoo
>Welcome to the Home of 18,954 Gentoo Packages
All packages for any architecture. A package gets only counted once, even if it's available for multiple architectures under the same name.
>>54205690
Well I GUESS I GOT FUCKED.
I'm comfortable with Arch, but I respect Gentoo users. I imagine it's a bit like Arch, with much more compiling.
>>54205684
Firefox has awesome KDE integration and even working thumbnails in the file picker thanks to openSuse
>>54205642
What the fuck are you doing dudini.
>>54205724
Firefox has the GTK3 file picker for me? How is that KDE integration? KDE simply configures breeze-gtk for gtk2.0/3.0 apps, or whatever thing you have configured.
>>54204441
Link to wallpaper please
>>54205713
>I imagine it's a bit like Arch
...how?
>>54205749
It's easy I just think about it basically, and guess.
>>54203870
>2016
>core 2 duo
>>54205744
openSuse patched Firefox to use the superior KDE dialog.
>>54205816
Fuck. That sounds nice
>>54205744
>>54205724
I found chromium being best using plasma5. Is perfectly integrated, filechooser, even with kwallet.
>>54205401
>>54205745
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atlanta_Downtown_Skyline.jpg
The Cityscape sections of Wikipedia articles for big cities tend to have decent wallpapers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta#Cityscape
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City#Cityscape
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago#Cityscape
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles#Cityscape
>>54205897
That sounds great, but I really prefer Firefox to Chromium -- I use a ton of add-ons which require a bit more than the thin layer to the browser exposed by the Plugin API.
Also, I just found this: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-kde-opensuse/
Might try it. Thank you >>54205816
anon
>>54205916
Thanks!
i was a very pro anti unity user yet with latest update which enables launcher to be docked at bottom they gain my attention. its literally usable now.
I can't believe I fell for the unity is shit meme, it's so comfy to use.
>>54205971
>dock at the bottom
>on widescreen monitors
>literally wasting already minimal space
shiggydiggydoo
>>54206116
you can make it smaller. os x dock takes half of the screen yet nobody complains. unity launcher is smaller.
>>54206157
I don't use OS X so I can't reliably complain about it.
When your shit systems boot in 4 seconds like mine does with parts from xfce call me faggots.
>>54206426
mine boots in 1 second plebtor 3000.
>not using Cinnamon on a desktop
>>54206469
>not using an outdated version of ubuntu with bad kde aka "cinnamon
i'm ok with this.
>>54203870
Wait,that is KDE 4? Jesus it looks better than KDE 5 (plasma)...
Goddamn it famss, is there even menu that can even come close to whisker menu? Simply perfect little thing,most practical and minimal menu ever.
>>54206469
>not using cinnamon for everything except food
>>54206494
I mean I hate cinnamon and mint like the next guy, but how is a three day old distro outdated?
>>54206469
I had a lot of issues of Cinnamon, not sure if it was just me that did something wrong. Switched to MATE and it works perfectly.
>>54206637
Worked fine for me, I think all I did was apt install cinnamon
I did have problems when I tried to uninstall Unity completely but now I've got my system set up perfectly I think. You got screenshots of your MATE?
>>54206494
>cinnamon
>bad kde
please nigga
>>54205971
>i was a very pro anti unity
>pro anti
>pro anti
Are you retarded?
>>54204525
rocket launcher
>>54205642
I think I'll throw up
>>54205003
you ARE using a DE. just your own DE. what do you use for e-mail?
>>54205494
>>portage
>>true multilib system
>>slotting
>>source based distribution
>>USE flags
>>huge official repositories that don't only include FOSS software
>>overlays
>>modern packages
>>stable
>Also, CFLAGS kicking in
autism kicking in too
Mate, xfce, and gnome are all top comfy
>>54203870
Cinnamon > Mate > KDE
>>54204525
Plank, duh
Gnome with a tiling extension.
>>54207060
thats a dock.
A launcher is a small tool that lets you search for applications and do minor actions that doesn't require a UI other than a a autocomplete.
Like when you want to calculate something, you don't want a full UI.
Or when you want to switch to a window, you don't want to navigate the mouse to the right location.
That is what I meant by launcher
KDE obviously
>>54204599
Terminal?
Tiling?
>>54207230
Synapse
Gnome. I tried mate, but felt that the top and bottom bars were too thin, and that the file browser window top area had too many layers of icon rows stacked on top of each other.
Not a huge fan of gnome, but I somehow wasn't able to completely uninstall mate so I'm afraid of cluttering up my harddrive by trying any more desktop environments...
Cinnamon because I'm not a massive homosexual.
>>54206637
You're not alone.
>>54204822
xfce is a good middle ground between feature heavy and minimal. KDE is too flashy for me. I can't comment on lxde, but lxqt was nice for the few days I used it. Mate and cinnamon are also nice, so I guess it all comes down to personal preference.
I use unity rn and I am constantly saying "oh I missed this in xfce," but stock Ubuntu "just werks" more often than not.
For example, xfce had brightness slider for my laptop, but the Bluetooth manager was shite.
>>54206927
Gmail.
Just installed Ubuntu 16.04 and it's weak
>Open terminal, no tabbing support
>Even Mac OS X since at least 10.5 support tabs in terminal
>The terminal has a purple tint, it's theme thing
>You can't change the accent color from the UI or the tweak tool
>Ubuntu wiki has cryptic commands to edit css which may break in next upgrade, or
>You must search another theme to install which may break in the next release
>Unity feels slugish
>To move the dock to the bottom you must install a tweak tool
>Mac, Windows and Gnome 2.* allow you to place your dock anywhere out of the box
>The default font is terrible, I remember Gnome 2.* had better fonts
>Try to find other computers in my network
>Network icon in file manager doesn't detect anything
>Have to connect manually with smb:// nonsense
>If I leave the workgroup field empty I can't connect
>How can anyone know this without previous experience?
>Just to check search on Google on how to connect and I'm on some Ubuntu wiki telling me to type some cryptic commands in the terminals which are wrong because it doesn't tell me to create the directory needed for the mount command
Is Linux regressing?
I remeber back in the Gnome 2.* days the UI was fast, many themes out of the box, customisable everything
I also remember the users wanted to keep things simple, now the trend on tech related boards, youtube, etc is to add complexity
>>54205005
Couldn't install Arch huh?
>>54203870
KDE
Gnome works well enough and is highly adaptable, but I don't like how it looks.
XFCE is a fucking train-wreck whose only selling point is that its fast
>>54205494
Do you advice Sabayon for noobs?
>>54210176
Most of your complaints are about Unity. Linux isn't regressing. If you like gnome 2 and want to use Ubuntu, install Ubuntu Mate.
