Spent lots of time with Gnome 2.

In Dec 2024 I got hooked in Hyprland on Arch and have a cool rice for it. But I’ve tried KDE on desktop now with Parrot OS since Plasma is popular. Still need to find some cool dot files or rice it myself.

I’ve noticed SwayFX getting lots of love lately. I might use that as an option with Plasma but am afraid of conflicts. I’m excited about it since Linux has now officially replaced windows on my gaming rig, which is the very last MS computer left in my house.

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    3·
    7 days ago

    Cinnamon. Desktop UI peaked in the Gnome 2/Windows XP era and anything after that is bloat for the sake of bloat.

    Might try kde plasma though, if I can make it behave the same.

      • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
        2·
        12 hours ago

        Cinnamon does everything I need it to and I’ve got it customised to the way I like it so I’ve not felt a need to switch. MATE’s status as a fork of an old version of Gnome (at least at the time I was looking) worries me a bit as well because the legacy codebase may get left behind.

    • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      2·
      5 days ago

      I loved Gnome 2. Used it way after Gnome 3 came out for work. I’m not sure something like Hyprland is bloat though. Some of this is really minimalist unless you add a ton of stuff.