• Gunpachi@lemmings.world
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    7 months ago

    I daily drive Window managers but occasionally I also check out Desktop environments. Here is my personal preference -

    DE

    1. XFCE
    2. KDE
    3. Cinnamon

    WM

    1. Hyprland
    2. BSPWM
    3. Openbox / Labwc
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      7 months ago

      I have never known what the difference between DE and WM, well, I still don’t know really…

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        A DE tries to be a full operating environment, it has panels and configuration tools and (…) all as part of the package

        A WM only does window management, and other things need to be added separately. The line blurs a bit since most people who use WMs end up adding a lot of other stuff to them to the point it might as well be a DE, only it was built piecemeal.

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          7 months ago

          So there is no DE with hyperland as WM? I want something like gnome with the forge extension but not es buggy 😂

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            None that I know of. Though you can build your own operating environment centered around Hyprland. Their wiki is pretty good and their config files are nice and simple to understand. I did that for a lark a few months back.

            … The catch is that, y’know, it’s a whole afternoon spent tinkering to get it right.

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              7 months ago

              Well that seems promising 😃 only one day seems doable 🤟🏻🤣 I’ll try to add it to my gnome arch as second option

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                YMMV of course. It took me an afternoon to get it to a point where it had the stuff I needed and was enjoyable to use.

                … f’course I didn’t stick with it, as I said in my toplevel post, turns out tiling WMs aren’t for me.