I've gone with super terminal heavy setups for years. If I want to dip my toes into a more GUI oriented setup what's your rec? - eviltoast

I’ve got a refurbed thinkpad yoga in the mail. It’s a stylus oriented laptop so I need to change the software I use to be more clicky.

For years I’ve favoured stuff like netctl, xrandr, xbacklight etc etc over GUI alternatives and usually gone for very minimal WM setups (e.g. dwm).

For obvious reasons this would be actual hell with a stylus in tablet mode, but it’s been around 15 years since I last had a clicky linux setup and I’m really lost as to how to set one up on arch. What do you folks recommend for laptops?

EDIT: update for wayward souls. Went with plasma, less works nicely out of the box but gnome hung occasionally on a 2019 yoga x1. There’s a lot about plasma I would say is annoying but configuring it is vastly easier than gnome.

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    Try some of the well known DE’s (KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon, Mate, Xfce) and see what you like. I personally enjoy KDE right now.