nixCraft 🐧If you are using a:
- GNOME desktop: You're a user.
- KDE desktop: You're a tweaker.
- xfce desktop: You're a minimalist.
- i3wm desktop: You're a wizard.
AinarG- MATE desktop: You're an older, grumpier user.
petur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@AinarG yes, like "get off my lawn" attitude
XCM
SirWumpus 👾🍁@nixCraft
dwm please.
Mark ☸@nixCraft and for TUI users?
Bart-Jan Vrielink@Duckbill4994 @nixCraft Gnome Terminal, Konsole, Xterm or Urxvt... :)
Django@nixCraft Windows: you are a fool
mikeTesteLinuxQlub
lxskllrLooks like I'm a tweaker and a minimalist. Depends on whether I'm home or at work.
Ralf Mohr@nixCraft
- 9wm Desktop: You are god
- 9wm Desktop: You are god
jwc@nixCraft Xmonad: ?
Albert Witteveen@nixCraft you made me look up i3wm. And now there goes my weekend….
Ciourte Piaille
Rastal@nixCraft Xmonad: you're a master wizard!
ekari@nixCraft
- notionwm: you’re old, but your workflow is perfect. Also you have forgotten that there is a window manager
- notionwm: you’re old, but your workflow is perfect. Also you have forgotten that there is a window manager
Michael W Lucas 
OpenBSD cwm fork: you're... me, probably?
R Tyler Croy 🦀
OutsideCasey@nixCraft cough cough, Sway
Reinald Kirchner@nixCraft I am missing fvwm2 in this list
Titus von der Malsburg 📖👀💭
GarretSidzaka@nixCraft
Xfce for me
Xfce for me
emp74ark@nixCraft A dozen of most popular DE, much more most popular distributions... It's wonderful!
Moved to https://social.vivaldi.net/@toddalio
truffle@nixCraft what if I use Sway?
Lenny
jakob 🇦🇹 ✅
Attila Kinali@nixCraft What if I don't use any desktop environment at all?
@attilakinali @nixCraft Stallman **2, with more beard 🤣
@mikeTesteLinuxQlub Thank you, but I do not like to be compared to a pedophile. 😡
punIssuer@attilakinali @nixCraft a desktop environment is a tool that allows having more shells open at the same time :)
@punissuer @nixCraft You are confusing a windowing system (e.g. X11) with a desktop environment (e.g. Gnome).
Windowing systems are used to manage terminal windows. Desktop environments are used to emulate Windows 😜
@nixCraft Why KDE are tweaker? Not sure to understand, KDE is customizable, but its not a big deal (ok didnt check all possibilities)
sazuke@nixCraft cinnamon 👨🍳
Serpent7776@nixCraft What if I'm using herbstluftwm?
labbatt50@nixCraft
- xfce desktop: I'm a minimalist.
- xfce desktop: I'm a minimalist.
locnar@nixCraft if you are echoing this, you are a gatekeeper and should feel bad.
Simon Volpert@nixCraft
How about a heavily customized FVWM environment with all commonly used apps set to hotkeys?
How about a heavily customized FVWM environment with all commonly used apps set to hotkeys?
rhythmicallysecured@nixCraft Where is hyprland???
Elrick_Winter@nixCraft Windows: The new guy (at least here)
Jorongo Ringo@nixCraft
Well, I guess one can understand how a filthy casual could think KDE is a drug
Well, I guess one can understand how a filthy casual could think KDE is a drug
Klaus666@nixCraft
You forget fluxbox and blackbox :-)
You forget fluxbox and blackbox :-)
SlightlyCyberpunk@nixCraft Enlightenment presumably was not mentioned because the answer is in the name? :)
@nixCraft awesomewm desktop: you're awesome
saucerlost@nixCraft
I used to like Gnome until it went down the totally Linux-friendly path of dictating my user experience to me. (/s) I tried KDE and MATE but ended up settling on XFCE because it's simple and I don't get the impression they're going to wildly shake things up in some goofy stab at greater relevancy.
All that being said I believe "options" is always the best option, and people should just use whatever desktop they enjoy.
G Allen@nixCraft KDE user, because I still need X11 on that one VM, still.
Kovacsics Robert@nixCraft I like to think of myself as a computer witch (Anathema Device's outfit from Good Omens S1 is goals)
JamesTDG@nixCraft me: *snorts line of cinnamon*
readbeanicecream
@nixCraft
Switch GNOME and KDE
Switch GNOME and KDE
@nixCraft Used i3wm at work for years, and still do at home. Now I use Gnome at work, because that's the default provided.
Recently, I took the habit to maximize all windows and display only one at once, on a single workspace.
Benefits:
- less multitasking
- better concentration on what I write and read
- more focused work
Whatever can map a window, alt-tab to switch, and be unobtrusive work for me.
So in the end, I would say the minimalist way is to pick whatever comes and get shit done.