Ask HN: What's your Linux window manager and/or desktop environment?

#1

Post by ethanpil » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 6:23 PM UTC

I'm curious what window managers and/or desktop environments the HN crowd uses, and favors - and why...

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#2

Post by jrepinc » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 6:26 PM UTC

KDE Plasma desktop environment with KWin window manager

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#3

Post by simonblack » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 6:30 PM UTC

Mint MATE

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 6:37 PM UTC

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Post by thesuperbigfrog » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 6:38 PM UTC

MATE - because I like Gnome 2 and don't like Gnome 3

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#6

Post by ethanpil » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 7:03 PM UTC

I like my setups to be as configurable yet minimal and resource light as possible.

Lately AwesomeWM[1] with Lain[2] seem to provide the flexibility and easy configurability I like with the minimal overhead I love.

[1] https://awesomewm.org/

[2] https://github.com/lcpz/lain

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#7

Post by throwaway888abc » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 7:07 PM UTC

I'm on Gnome (Manjaro) with workspaces plus each one mapped to keys F1,F2,F3,F4

Kitty, VS Code, Chromium (Ublock, Bitwarden), Firefox, Typora, Logseq, Ohmyzsh

https://imgur.com/a/u1f0ZO6

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#8

Post by mech422 » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 7:42 PM UTC

I'm always a sad enlightenment(1) doesn't seem to get any notice anymore... I used to run E everywhere - Thanks Raster!

But I have to admit, lately - I run KDE

1) https://www.enlightenment.org/

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#9

Post by approxim8ion » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 7:45 PM UTC

Plasma.

I've used a ton of minimal WMs and almost every DE. But I find Plasma much easier to get started with. Minimal tinkering and I can get going.

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#10

Post by runjake » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 7:50 PM UTC

Pop!_OS with Pop!_OS Shell or whatever.

I'm tired of fiddling with OS bits. I just want to get work done. Pop!_OS is close enough to Ubuntu.

And their window tiling extension is fantastic.