@ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
What WM or DE are you using now?
2026-06-06 14:19 UTC
Replies (40)
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@A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2026-06-06 14:22
Still on Openbox/Xorg. Inevitable is the switch to wayland, what is the closest equivalent?
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@Maerman@lemmy.world 2026-06-06 14:26
I’m on Mango, and it’s amazing for me. It’s well documented, as well as extremely flexible. I love it.
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@TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 2026-06-06 14:28
I use the pop!_os customized version of GNOME currently. I used hyprland for a while until I lost my dots for it due to some PC issues, and I didn’t bother setting it back up. I do plan to switch to COSMIC which I quite enjoy, but it’s also still missing a lot of stuff I need, so im waiting for that to be fully rolled out
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@Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2026-06-06 14:35
I use Cinnamon, it’s not much, but it just works.
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@verdare@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-06-06 14:46
Gnome
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@Veraxis@lemmy.world 2026-06-06 14:52
KDE. I don’t even do much to customize it. I think it looks pretty good out of the box.
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@Telorand@reddthat.com 2026-06-06 14:54
Niri + Noctalia shell. I find the scrolling tiles to be excellent for my workflow, and the desktop shell feels nice and polished. Plus, Niri supports the Wayland zwlr_layer_shell, which means I can finally use Wallpaper Engine; there’s even a Noctalia plugin for it. Niri has been great for gaming and streaming, so be sure to check it out if you haven’t. I would be hesitant to use anything but KWin with Plasma. They were designed together as a set (like Mutter and Gnome), and I suspect replacing the WM would be no small task.
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@rhubarbe@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2026-06-06 15:11
KDE Plasma with default settings as well.
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@HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-06-06 15:14
KDE + Wayland, only changes I made were moving the bar to the left side, changing the applications menue icon, and changing the color of breeze dark to pink
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@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 2026-06-06 15:08
KDE Plasma because I’m basic and I wanna get stuff done 👍
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@jpv2390@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-06-06 15:25
kde + wayland on tumbleweed. Wanted to try other things, went for swaywm. NowI found out that krunner and kdeconnect are like 90% of what i need an OS (DE) to do.
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@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2026-06-06 15:39
Hyprland, specifically with the end4 illogical impulse desktop. It’s pretty and I really like how functional it is, but some recent updates have changed how some of the config files work requiring changes. It’s an inconvenience I’m willing to put up with though.
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@BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 2026-06-06 15:39
I’m a simple man. Default Gnome on my desktop, i3 on my low end laptop. I don’t even really use the DE-ness of Gnome, I’m just too lazy to bother switching. On my laptop I also don’t even really need i3. kmscon + tmuxwould probably be fine except for those few times when I have to use a full browser for some stupid logon permissions or QR code jank.
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@DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl 2026-06-06 15:57
KDE Plasma, as it’s most Windows-like and it has lots of cool widgets to add to your desktop Windows 7-style. I’ve also tried Gnome, but I found it confusing and honestly a bit annoying. Not being able to properly minimise like I’m used to just really throws me off. I’ve tried Cinnamon as well. I thought it looked a bit too cheap for my taste, at least by default on Mint.
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@Somecall_metim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-06 16:01
KDE Plasma. It’s clean, fast, and just works.
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@atomkarinca@lemmygrad.ml 2026-06-06 16:17
river + rill. i had been using niri and i love the concept of a scrolling wm, i just love that i can customize everything as i like with river.
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@Comrade_Squid@lemmy.ml 2026-06-06 16:24
I’m using gnome. Really enjoyed sway but lacked the integration I wanted, KDE before plasma 6 would break all the time and I liked but again lacked integration niri (a scrolling window manager)
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@master_of_unlocking@piefed.zip 2026-06-06 16:28
Gnome with the Forge extension for window tiling
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@dlsolo@lemmy.world 2026-06-06 16:28
Running mangowm on AerynOS.
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@juipeltje@lemmy.world 2026-06-06 16:29
If i have to pick one i’d say River. I have a bunch of tiling compositors configured but find myself coming back to River the most. It feels stable, it’s minimal, but still supports the wayland protocols you’d want to be there, and is fairly simple to configure with its shell script config file.
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@determinist@kbin.earth 2026-06-06 16:42
KDE (on CachyOS)
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@ClipperDefiance@piefed.social 2026-06-06 16:47
I use KDE. I like how easy it is to customize pretty much everything. Like, if I want everything to be green, I can make everything green and no one can stop me.
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@garbage_world@lemmy.world 2026-06-06 17:38
GNOME. I love the workspace management and simplicity
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@KianaTabion@lemmy.today 2026-06-06 17:42
I’ve been a GNOME user ever since I made the switch to Linux. Though, like literally over the last couple of days, I’ve been DE/WM-hopping. The first address was Sway, but it felt (kinda) archaic… And while I’m positive that I’d be able to make it work, I wasn’t entirely sure if it was worth the effort 😅. So, not long after, I couldn’t bear it anymore and switched to COSMIC. So far, I’m pretty content with it. GNOME required about half a dozen extensions to properly bend to my will. With COSMIC, it pretty much gets there without any external add-ons.
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@mrbn@lemmy.ca 2026-06-06 18:07
Cosmic on PC. KDE Plasma on laptop.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-06-06 17:18
KDE, but only with an extension called kröhnkite for auto tiling. To me a manual stacked window management system is almost unusable. As someone who used tiling window managers for years and lots of KDE based applications, and as KDE was one of the first who worked well in Wayland, I thought to give it a shot. I like it and since then (years by now) stayed on KDE. For reference, I used Gnome 2 on Ubuntu, made the switch to Unity desktop, then Gnome 3 (and I think Gnome 4 too?, don’t remember). Then started experimenting with Regolith, auto tiling for Gnome, and tried out real tiling window managers, until I landed on qtile. Then experimented with Xfce, before finally making the switch to KDE (because of Wayland). Rest is history.
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@IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2026-06-06 18:13
Vanilla KDE on desktop, Niri WM+Noctalia shell on laptop. Firstly, because for some reason I cannot get any touchpad gestures to work on KDE, and secondly because the niri paradigm of horizontal tiling is just perfect for a laptop.
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@JadeEast@quokk.au 2026-06-06 18:27
Cosmic. It’s still a little buggy but getting better.
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@haxboar@hexbear.net 2026-06-06 18:29
github.com/conformal/spectrwm Super minimal, and gets out of my way. I’ve been using it for over a decade
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@relaymoth@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-06 18:30
I really want to like Cosmic but there are too many usability papercuts for me at the moment, so Gnome it is.
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@Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-06 19:31
KDE Plasma but mainly I use sway.
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@dihutenosa@piefed.social 2026-06-06 19:28
sway. I tried hyprland, but it was unable to switch between different maximized windows (monocle layout). There was a way, but it triggered a resize on every window switch, which was slow and annoying. I don’t know if it’s perhaps been fixed since then.
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@netvor@lemmy.world 2026-06-06 19:50
i3 With alacritty, qutebrowser, neovim and LibreWolf. I use my custom dmenu-based utilities for things like launching apps, locking (with slock), controlling (ie. postponing :D) redshift and music player and opening bookmarks, links and searches. Thunar is the most DE-like app I use but being comfortable with Bash i use Thunar just for certain tasks like organizing files like photos. (For quick text edits, I sometimes prefer Mousepad. For screenshots it’s slock+maim.) I don’t “rice”, I just set some color schemes years ago and use simple wallpaper (which I rarely see.) And keep everything as minimal and out of way as possible. (I don’t care about Wayland unless I’m somehow forced to. I mean, some of my utils depend on X11 for things like clipboard access but I suppose it could be fixed easily nowadays. However X11 works fine for me so if it ain’t broken…)
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@mlg@lemmy.world 2026-06-06 20:26
XFCE with Compiz with all the 3D effects enabled lol. If you want wayland then wayfire is supposed to be the spiritual successor, but it’s still technically beta software.
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@appauled@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-06 20:26
People tend to dislike this, but I LOVE gnome. It runs a lil heavy, but damn it’s clean, smooth, fast, easy & decluttered. No dot files, no config, and it’s intuitive
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@nyan@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-06 20:40
TDE. Solid, familiar, stays out of my way.
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@HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2026-06-06 20:45
I use mainly StumWM, a tiling window manager which uses concepts very similar to Emacs. For example, one can define key chords, bind keys to lisp functions, and auto-generate input for a program window. If it isn’t available, I use i3, or occasionally GNOME.
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@megane_kun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-06 21:18
I have KDE Plasma, Hyprland, and Mango (WM) installed. Of the three, I use Mango most of the time, and KDE Plasma sometimes. Hyprland, I’ve kept because most of my config was for it, and I’m still currently porting them to Mango. Most of the dotfiles are in their own areas, though I’ve mostly piggybacked on Plasma components. One area that I’ve got some trouble with is program theming. KDE Plasma has its own, Qt has its own (which is different from the KDE Plasma one), and GTK is yet another. I’ve decided that the best way to deal with it is to make them look as similar as I can, so that whether I’m on Mango, Hyprland, or KDE Plasma, my programs will look the same–except for the presence of window titlebars, which Mango doesn’t show, Hyprland shows via a plugin, but KDE Plasma does show. I used Ubuntu’s implementation of Gnome back when I started dabbling with Linux some time ago. I didn’t bother theming it. And then I moved to XFCE when that underpowered machine I was using couldn’t handle Ubuntu’s Gnome without feeling like it’s swimming in molasses. XFCE is nice and configurable in contrast, and I didn’t have much to complain about. However, I found its configuration back then to be quite troublesome, especially as I tried tweaking my own bars and panels. I then moved to KDE Plasma when I got my current machine. It was pretty okay out of the box, but coming from a tweaked XFCE, I couldn’t stop myself from theming it to my liking. Hyprland was introduced to me mid-2024, and I was thrust head-first into configuring it from scratch, no dotfiles to copy from, or pre-made shells to make my experience easier. At present, Mango won me over by having a decent vertical scrolling layout, as well as the flexibilty of using other layouts on the fly. While I like Hyprland’s level of polish and customizability, and recently have implemented scrolling (both vertical and horizontal), I am staying with Mango if only because I’ve already done the work porting most of my stuff there.
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@WellTheresYourCobbler@hexbear.net 2026-06-06 22:25
Vanilla gnome is pretty peak
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@timmytbt@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-06 23:03
Sway