For me, it's Cinnamon.

mogged by xue

>>106174874 (OP)
>>106174957
>gtk3
your both wrong

you can't rice it though

>>106175396
Gtk2 is very riceable

>>106174874 (OP)
I remember making something like Mac OS on Cinnamon. It was beautiful. If I ever return to Linux, Cinnamon is the only one for me.

>>106174874 (OP)
>>106174957
>>106175382
all of above are great
Cinnamon for high resolution displays
XFCE for both modern and old
LXDE for old
I fucking hate GNOME, MATE on the other hand feels jankier than GNOME 2.
No opinion on KDE or LXQt.

>>106175541
>Cinnamon
Clem can't maintain shit, he only knows how to leech of gnome and then cry when they dont make accomodations for mint

>>106175797
Cinnamon is still using GNOME 2 libraries that GNOME ditched more than 10 years ago. Embarrassing.

>>106175382
Post beef

>>106174874 (OP)
Every time I try another DE out I always just default back to Gnome within a couple weeks. I just can't be bothered with anything else, I don't care for "Windows-like" workflow anymore, the Gnome philosophy is objectively superior at this point and the only difficulty is learning how to adapt your existing workflow.

b-b-b,but no tiling :(

>>106176426
What distro are you running?

>>106176426
I have no idea what a workflow is or does, sorry.

>>106176421
Take meds.

>>106176426
people reject gnome because it's not the design they're used to and they refuse to learn anything new, pretty sad all in all.
the android generation coming up will be far more likely to opt for GNOME.

I like dash to dock with gnome the most

>>106174874 (OP)
I've used Cinnamon for about a decade now. I haven't felt like anything is out of place or difficult to use, so I haven't bothered trying new DEs in a few years. The last time was maybe 2019?
I sometimes wonder if I'm missing out on some new magical innovation, but then I either get back to work, or to having fun, depending on the time of day.
I might try COSMIC whenever it's stable, but I'm not in a hurry, so if that isn't until 2030 or something, I couldn't care less.

>>106175797
>>106175902
I've seen posts like these over the years, and never understood. I have not seen a "GNOME 2 library" materialize in my daily desktop use as something that doesn't work.
What is the negative aspect supposed to be, and when would I see or experience it?
I am not asking because I don't believe it exists! I assume you've tried Cinnamon in the past, but had something break with a GNOME 2 error message or something. I just haven't seen it myself, and want to understand what people mean by that.

>>106175382
>having multiple toolkits loaded in ram is better than having just the single toolkit my apps will be using anyway loaded in ram
What is your actual brain damage? Don't sit here and pretend that you have a pure GTK2 workflow. IceWM would be the go-to if Xfce was too heavy.

>>106174874 (OP)
Cinnamon is the best

>>106180603
>What is the negative aspect supposed to be, and when would I see or experience it?
to put it simply: new stuff.
cinammon is old, and is very slow to adapt to anything, and when they do, they adapt at a crawling pace, just look at its wayland implementation.
you're missing out on HDR, VRR, modern UIs, accessibility features, accent colors... cinnamon is a terrible DE to recommend to new users, the only thing it has going for it is the stuck in time, nostalgia factor.

>>106180943
I guess I really don't know what I missing then.
>HDR, VRR
I sort of know what HDR and VRR are, but I don't play video games, so I don't feel like I'm missing out? Or I am just ignorant to the details?
>modern UIs
I have learned to mistrust claims where the word "modern" is thrown on it. In recent years, pretty much anything in my life that was pitched as more "modern" ends up being a goddamned trap.
>accessibility features
That is a great point. I don't need them, but if Cinnamon is bad for a11y, then I agree it is bad to recommend Cinnamon to someone who needs them.
>accent colors...
I know what those words mean in terms of clothing and interior design. If it's similar for a windowing system, for me at least it would be pretty small ball.

For me, it's op's mom

>>106181215
>I have learned to mistrust claims where the word "modern" is thrown on it
UI, much like everything else, evolves as time and people change.
>accent colors
it's a feature that both KDE and GNOME support that lets you choose a color that affects the entire UI, it's a small thing but it is representative of the fact that while the 2 big dogs are doing stuff, cinnamon is left in the dirt.

>>106181376
You made good points before, and if I cared about video games some day, I might try something else based on your advice about HDR and VRR. However:
>...it's a small thing but it is representative of the fact that while the 2 big dogs are doing stuff, cinnamon is left in the dirt.
Sentences like this sounds like a salesman trying to fool me with marketing. Obviously this stuff is all free, but that is why I say "sounds like". Factual statements about technical capabilities are much more convincing than vacuous metaphors like "left in the dirt".

>>106181551
>Factual statements
fact is cinnamon has a tiny development team when compared to KDE let alone GNOME. it's only natural for it to fall behind, and the further we go from the initial fork, the further behind it will be. rebasing mutter every couple of years helps, forking adwaita helps, but long term it's fucked.

>>106174957
This shit is mid as fuck. People here worship this garbage like if it was really good.

>>106174874 (OP)
Literally just GNOME + Dash to Panel but less extensible and more buggy

>>106182029
It's just one dude spamming

>>106182199
>>106182199
>Literally just GNOME + Dash to Panel but less extensible and more buggy

Good, you shouldn't need shitty user made extensions to get basic functionality like a taskbar and desktop icons. You have been exposed footfag.

>>106182275
I don't use either, your emotional response is equal to that of a woman's
>desktop icons
lol
anyways good luck getting it to do anything Clem didn't specifically add then since it has 0 modularity

>>106174874 (OP)
Cinnamon reminds me of XP
Only with a modern touch

XP was when UI/UX design peaked
There was literally no reason to improve on its philosophy
Everything after is over-engineering
Cinnamon is what XP would have evolved in, if people didn't need to overengineer stuff to justify their huge paychecks

no you see it doesn't lack features, it's just a "different flow", understand? like that completely empty void black bar at the top, it's not useless, no! it's a "different workflow".
it's a very advanced, futuristic bar, you would get it if you werent troglodytes stuck in WINDOWS 95 (microsoft is bad and windows users are stupid so by making this comparison I automatically and immediately won the argument).

>have no argument
>start shadowboxing
/g/ really is just full of battered schizos at this point lmao
good thread bud

>>106182364

cope. you even need an extension for tray icon support lol

>>106175382
>turbo deprecated is better than deprecated

>>106184627
>deprecated
fuck off updooter

>>106183554
And you need an extension to edit the start menu LUL
Better hope the theming doesn't break every single OSD while you're at it LMAOOOOOO

>>106180713
>multiple
all my apps are gtk2, none if them are using gtk3

>>106184627
>deprecated
says who?