I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it’s Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)…etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.

Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the “Flagship Manjaro version”. I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.

After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.

What about you guys?

  • Bogus007@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 days ago

    I am absolutely with you about i3. Simply great (there is also dwm or qtile)! But it is a WM, not a DE, what OP asked about.

      • Bogus007@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 day ago

        You mean switching between the DE xfce and the WM i3wm, right? Yep, this works and it can indeed make life sometimes easier to have a DE and a WM aside each other.

        • Horse {they/them}@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          yeah, basically just running xfce but replacing xfwm4 with i3
          i was kinda surprised how well it worked tbh, i had been using i3 on it’s own for like a year before i tried it

          • Bogus007@lemm.ee
            2·
            1 day ago

            Oh, I did not know about the possibility of replacing xfwm4 with i3. I too am using i3 for some years and like a lot to have a clean surface which facilitates focussing on my tasks. However, never thought about integrating it in a DE.