I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it’s Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)…etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.

Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the “Flagship Manjaro version”. I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.

After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.

What about you guys?

  • piefood@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    I’ve looked at i3wm, but I never used it, so I don’t know. If I had to move to another wm, i3wm seems like the first one that I’d look at, since they seem so similar

    • double_quack@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      I have a whole system around it, different machines sharing their config files (over a git repo), so if I tweak one, the others catch-up.

      Also, you can “build the config file” (I am cat-ing several dynamic blocks depending on the machine I am sitting on) and then init the DE.

      • piefood@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        Ah, nice. I have a similar setup, I have a repo, and for each rc-file, I do:
        cat shared/${general_config} ${machine_name}/${machine_specific_config} > ${rc_file_name}

        So for spectrwm it does: cat shared/spectrewm.conf laptop/spectrewm.conf > ~/.spectrewm.conf

        • double_quack@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          Hahahah, same! I use a folders named as the hostname to build that machine’s config on the fly. And all my config files are in one repo that then I stow