What desktop enviroment do you use and why? - eviltoast

So a few months back I asked about you guys os in c/asklemmy, so this time I wanna ask about your desktops you use on this same account.
(I use kde but plan to move to cinnamon I find kde buggy and gnome tracker3 randomly broke for no reason + themeing so yh idk if these happened to anybody)

  • TruePe4rl@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Another i3 user here. I slowly transitioned from KDE when switching keyboard layout stopped working as well as some other DE related things.

    Ended up writing custom script for switching. Currently implemented with rofi in Perl, bc I like the syntax.

    I still like having a bit nice gui, so i have wallpapers, some icons, etc. But I fell in love with terminal along with neovim : ) , soo kinda looking for that middle ground between look, performance and functionality.

    Haven’t finished tweaking all the configs to my liking, but after that vanilla Arch is the direction I plan to go, since many things in my current install that I have as well as haven’t customized work a bit questionably or exist for no reason.

      • TruePe4rl@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        What? I know it’s a bit chaotic, but can be more readable than bash sometimes imo. Originally chose it because writing stuff for sed was getting too complex at some point and saw suggestions to use Perl for complex regex instead.