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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Mwa@thelemmy.club to c/linux@lemmy.ml

So a few months back I asked about you guys os in c/asklemmy, so this time I wanna ask about your desktops you use on this same account.
(I use kde but plan to move to cinnamon I find kde buggy and gnome tracker3 randomly broke for no reason + themeing so yh idk if these happened to anybody)

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[-] owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Xfce

I've daily driven every major DE except KDE (GNOME, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon) and I always ended up switching back to xfce. I'm not a fan of GNOME's workflow and since it's not that customizable without extensions, that made me switch from it very quickly. I used Cinnamon on Mint for a few months and while the experience was mostly fine, it sometimes felt a bit laggy. As for MATE, while I love the GNOME 2 layout and it's a relatively lightweight DE, I encountered plenty of visual bugs there and I could very easily replicate that GNOME 2 layout on Xfce (without a system menu, but still).

[-] vortexal@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm currently using Cinnamon because I thought it would be better than Xfce. While I do think that Cinnamon looks better, there were some minor things that I preferred with Xfce. I want to try Mate and maybe some of the other DEs if I can find a good distro that has them but I may go back to Xfce the next time I install Linux Mint.

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[-] davi@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I use KDE plasma 5 atm and i planning on an upgrade to 6 soon; but it's my daily driver so I've dragging my feet on it for a couple weeks now.

What happened when tried troubleshooting your problems?

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

What broke with tracker3 ?

[-] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 1 points 7 months ago

@BCsven @Mwa I disabled tracker and use plocate from a shell to find stuff. The reason, tracker's crawl of the disk space is extremely inefficient, but plocate keeps track of things like directory update times so does not recrawl a directory if the time stamps have not changed, thus saving a lot of disk I/O.

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[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 7 months ago

Idk,it would not run anymore.

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[-] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml -1 points 7 months ago

Gnome and Cosmic. Gnome 'cause of simplicity and Cosmic because of Rust.

!I am a Rust programmer and I love this language!<

[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club -2 points 7 months ago

I found some negative press about cosmic which can be valid or not.
https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-on-cosmic

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[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml -2 points 7 months ago

GNOME because it's the only good option that looks modern and has proper development. Excuses of KDE fanboys that GNOME team makes weird decisions are not accepted.

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