@rasat The link is in my comment.
What motivates you to choose a DE/WM?
Re: What motivates you to choose a DE/WM?
This is my Fluxbox . There are many others like it, but this one is mine. My Fluxbox is my best friend. It is my life.
I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my Fluxbox is useless. Without my Fluxbox, I am useless.
I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my Fluxbox is useless. Without my Fluxbox, I am useless.
Re: What motivates you to choose a DE/WM?
XFCE wins for me because I find that amount of configurabiliy and ease of use is just right. KDE, once you get tired of exploding windows etc is not quite as good, I just don't like Gnome. I hve tried most of them at some time or other, but if you want a daily driver that doesn't give you a headache I choose XFCE.
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Re: What motivates you to choose a DE/WM?
I like KDE as it seems much more familiar to use, plus it gives some comfort for doing certain tasks, it quite lightweight for my system which has 3GB RAM, and not to forget that it looks very nice by default, with exception of very thick taskbar of 44px size by default !!
I had tried other DEs as well, like GNOME, Budgie,Cinnamon and LXDE, but none of them were comfortable for me to use, especially GNOME. It didn't allowed me to place files and folders on desktop, rather I was needed to open them via file manager, which was clumpsy. Plus we were needed to enable some browser extensions for customizing it, which was painful. And GNOME was resource heavy as well, with hangs here and there.
In this regard, Cinnamon and Budgie were slightly better, but again I was having negligible controls over the items on desktop. And all these GNOME family system settings were quite limited, to me it felt as if system settings got finished before I managed to find what I need.
With that said, I chose XFCE in MX Linux, and with usage experience of few hours, it also seems comfortable to use as well.
So for me preference will be : KDE>XFCE>LXQT>LXDE>GNOME family
I would have chosen KDE for MX Linux as well, but I don't want to give my time to customizing the looks of KDE as of now, as I am quite busy due to loads of academics.
I had tried other DEs as well, like GNOME, Budgie,Cinnamon and LXDE, but none of them were comfortable for me to use, especially GNOME. It didn't allowed me to place files and folders on desktop, rather I was needed to open them via file manager, which was clumpsy. Plus we were needed to enable some browser extensions for customizing it, which was painful. And GNOME was resource heavy as well, with hangs here and there.
In this regard, Cinnamon and Budgie were slightly better, but again I was having negligible controls over the items on desktop. And all these GNOME family system settings were quite limited, to me it felt as if system settings got finished before I managed to find what I need.
With that said, I chose XFCE in MX Linux, and with usage experience of few hours, it also seems comfortable to use as well.
So for me preference will be : KDE>XFCE>LXQT>LXDE>GNOME family
I would have chosen KDE for MX Linux as well, but I don't want to give my time to customizing the looks of KDE as of now, as I am quite busy due to loads of academics.