Thread 106341247

For me, it's MATE.

Pretty solid choice. I despise GTK though so I use LXQT.

>>106341603
> I despise GTK...
Why?

>>106341738
Not him but I also use LxQt and my previous desktop was MATE
I don't see a future in GTK and Gtk3 is just plain worse to current Qt, with less features and worse performance.

I like Xfce more.

>>106342391
Be real, the two are pretty much the same.

>>106341247 (OP)
mogged by xue

>>106341247 (OP)
Personally? I love xfce
>Light enough for nearly any machine
>Pretty enough to rice if desired
>does everything I need from an environment
>mice are cute.

>>106342398
>>106342465
Based

>>106342398
Based fellow Xue fan

>>106341884
Qt only has more features with all of the extensions that bloat it up. LXQt mostly just relies on qt6-base that barely does more than GTK2.

>>106342635
Most of what I care about is included, fractional scaling works perfectly in LxQt because of Qt

>>106341247 (OP)
MATE or Cinnamon, GNOME is always a solid choice

>>106342478
>>106342465
>>106342398
cute mousey

>>106342635
le thumbnail icon file picker?

>>106341247 (OP)
MATE is my favorite, but last time I installed it something constantly (but silently as I don't even know what) broke and asked me if I wanted to send the crash report
Xfce gives me similar vibes but is more consistent

>>106341247 (OP)
Using it right now. It's not the best, but I needed something that just works right out of the box, and it's doing the job.
I think XFCE is better in general as a lightweight DE, but it also requires a bit more than just changing the GTK theme and wallpaper to make me feel at home, so it's tedious. i3 is preferred to either one, but it's even more tedious.
Plasma is my preferred "modern" DE, but it's not lightweight and not as easy on RAM or battery as MATE (something I have to take into consideration with this machine).

>>106346457
Yes, even GTK3 does that better than qt6-base. GTK4 just adds full-sized thumbnails.

>>106346577
Was it Ubuntu MATE? That would always happen to me, just an Ubuntu thing.

>>106347116
what's that supposed to mean

I love how my one or two replies about MATE turned into someone constantly posting it and making threads
Keep up the good fight brother, kill all rats behead all rodents inshallah

>>106348447
just stop ruining social media for the rest of us. It is not a hard thing to do.

>>106348494
I'm not the one making threads, learn to read and meds
Nice pic of your laptop also

>>106348369
>Was it Ubuntu MATE?
Yes

Why Red Hat and Canonical supports Gnome?

>>106348838
Usual suspect, Ubuntu's just really loud in general about shit quietly giving errors in the background.