What distro are you using? I'm currently using #NixOS with the #BudgieDesktop
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MX Linux
Nice! Which edition do you run?
My Desktop Environment is Xfce. Prior to that I had used Linux Mint with MATE for a long time. My first distro was Slackware in the 90's.
Just curious but why did you switch from Mate to Xfce? Is it because they are more progressive in their Wayland transition?
Mate, under Mint started to get wonky. The rumor I was told was that the head of Mint and the head of MATE quit talking to each other, and the lack of collaboration is showing.
For me, the update manager window would not display from the tray icon. If there was a notification, I had to open Synaptic from the menu, then update. With enough updates, that gets to be a hassle. I tried changing windows managers, etc, but that just made more problems.
I checked out Cinnamon, but I didn't like it. It felt like someone didn't pay attention to how best to use my screen space, and modifications weren't forthcoming from my search results. So I went distro hunting and took shots at Manjaro, Arc, MX, and a couple others.
MX didn't have installation issues, and let me configure the UI to my liking. I was even able to get scrollbars! Now if UI designers will quit customizing every scrollbar they can find, I'll be in good shape! :D
Fresh install of Ubuntu with cinnamon desktop
Sweet, why did you go with Cinnamon? Is it your first desktop environment?
No not at all. Long time Linux user since I got a Mepis DVD that came with a book in the mid 2000’s. Used to like gnome but it was a bit heavy and then became hardcore on Xfce but tried out cinnamon for the first time playing with mint and really liked it as an environment. Not overly heavy but plenty of customization and eye candy. I’m not a huge fan of the new gnome so switched it out for cinnamon.
I've used Gnome Shell in the 3.x era and I quite liked it, but it became a bit heavy in my experience. After trying out some desktop environment, I found a new home in Budgie on Solus.
Last year I really tried out Icewm and it is a great lightweight DE, however I couldn't find any plans for it to switch to Wayland (or at least not in the foreseeable future) so when I heard Budgie will use Xfce stuff (specifically the libxfce4windowing library) to transition to Wayland¹ I'm kind of glad.
It is a fairly lightweight DE with their default layout akin to pre-Windows 11/Cinnamon but customisable to become completely different if you want it. But knowing me I'll keep looking at more lightweight options when they come around, but my biggest "requirement" is that it should be transitioning/have transitioned Wayland (or be native to it even). And I like the Windows layout ✌️😏
Qubes OS - simply unbeatable when it comes to IT security
This was a reply on Coracle. nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr why is this a post in this community that's pending?
nobara with gnome
Debian and arch
Those are quite opposites in the Linux world! "Exciting" and bleeding edge vs "boring" and static! But both completely put together by the user ✌️😎