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What DE/WM do you use? Any you tried in the past and hated?

Last week I was asking about when and why you started using Linux, thank you everyone who took their time to write an answer! It was interesting to read all of your guys stories and I was surprised just how far back some of them go.

Now I am curious about your guys DE/WMs. What do you use? What do you like/don't like about it? What have you tried? What is you go to? Any you absolutely can not stand the sight of? Any that you tried that disappointed you?

Once again no judgment, just curious about peoples experiences.

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  • I use KDE. The workflow I've kept almost completely vanilla aside from shortcuts and the always on top button. The rest is minor theming, like changing is the accent color. I started a custom icon theme that I may come back to, but it's nothing much (all I've really changed is the minecraft launcher to be a bee 🤣).

    I use KDE just cause everything just works, and there's always been an easy setting for me to simply toggle. And despite all the settings I feel I've been able to find what I need just fine.

    There was one point in time that I did try customizing the workflow of Plasma. It was pretty fun coming up with some crazy ones but in the end it didn't really jive with me. If I do come back to changing the workflow I think I'd like to make a couple global themes to switch between a Plasma/MacOS/Unity layout. It's fun to switch it up sometimes ✨

    • I am curious, why is Minecraft a bee?

      I am glad you had a very different KDE experience than me :)

      • Well, the idea was to make a cozy teddy-bear themed desktop. So honey, bears, bees, red/yellow/brown hearts and more brown colors in general :) So for example I might change firefox's icon to a brown fox with red tail and the globe color to a golden honey yellow, or Brave's icon from its orange to a brown. And I forgot but the other icon I changed was discord's blue circle to a brown heart. So, small simple changes really :)

        Oh noo, haha. Don't worry tho, Cinnamon is great. I started with Mint so it has a small place in my heart :)

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