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Desktop Environments Anonymous 04/10/15 (Fri) 01:18:18 No.2012

>download latest Gnome 3 update
>weird ugly lines between menus
>transparency replaced by ugly gray
>giant-ass icons
>DOUBLE CLICKING doesn't fucking open shit (we tablet now)

Alright, the Gnome team went full fucking retard. Where do I go now? I hate cinnamon, KDE is ugly as always. i3 is usable, but it takes forever to configure it into a non-ugly configuration because the team is full >muh minimalism, and most of that involved using Gnome.

I'm so assblasted, this might force me to start another DE...

Anyway, DE thread.

Anonymous 04/10/15 (Fri) 01:19:39 No.2013

>>2012
...and drag and drop is broken. Fantastic.

Anonymous 04/10/15 (Fri) 10:02:57 No.2014

xfce master race

Anonymous 04/10/15 (Fri) 10:11:08 No.2016

Have you tried MATE? xfce is pretty nice, too.

Anonymous 04/14/15 (Tue) 07:40:32 No.2040

That's Linux for you. First they only develop it until it sort of works on their computers, then everyone fixes their fucking bugs and by that time the original developer releases a "new and improved" product. The cycle repeats. And on Linux they feel the need to keep reinventing the wheel while bloating the fuck out of it.

Anonymous 04/27/15 (Mon) 01:13:33 No.2153

>>2012

Where does everyone find videos of him?

Anonymous 04/29/15 (Wed) 13:36:00 No.2187

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>>2012

Use openbox + tint2 + conky + skippy-xd all on ARCH.

I feel exactly the same as you with GNOME, just saw the updates as well adn decidsed to go full minimalism without sacrificing features I used to have in gnome.

This uses 167MB at cold boot.

Anonymous 04/29/15 (Wed) 13:36:14 No.2188

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>>2187

Anonymous 05/04/15 (Mon) 11:12:18 No.2233

>>2187

>>2188

How do you achieve those damn good visuals?

I've recently installed the slim lubuntu and it runs fast, yet I don't like it's visuals.

How do I achieve that?

I'm so jealous right now

Anonymous 05/04/15 (Mon) 19:36:40 No.2237

>>2233

Just install openbox + tint2, learn how to use and configure theme, find a nice GTK theme and you'll get awesome visuals.

Anonymous 05/05/15 (Tue) 10:28:27 No.2241

>>2233

Reading the post worked for me. You should try it too. I highly recommend it.

Anonymous 05/09/15 (Sat) 18:26:54 No.2275

>>2233

>>2237

I am writing a script the aotomated the installation of my openbox/tint2/"a bunch of other programs" configuration and themes on Arch.

Let me know if you want it, I'll send you a link

Anonymous 05/09/15 (Sat) 18:28:21 No.2276

>>2233

Install Crunchbang, it is what I tried to copy with my config above.

Anonymous 05/10/15 (Sun) 00:42:32 No.2279

>kde

>ugly

Pick one

Anonymous 08/09/15 (Sun) 03:40:57 No.3075

>>2012

MATE's cool. It's like GNOME 2 basically. LXDE and Xfce are also very light and similar. LXDE uses less memory than MATE, while Xfce uses a little bit more.

Anonymous 08/09/15 (Sun) 16:59:31 No.3081

>>2012

nice GET also use LXDE

Anonymous 08/11/15 (Tue) 22:55:40 No.3099

What version op? I just installed Kali Linux 2.0 on my laptop. It's now rolling. Gnome 3.14.1 with Kali 2.0 is the best ui experience I've had in years. Screen brightness works, sound blaster and volume now work, great icon pack, runs butter smooth.

Anonymous 08/13/15 (Thu) 01:20:08 No.3111

>>3099

>sound blaster and volume

Are you meaning the X-Fi console will work in this distro? Or at least 3D audio? I really need 3D audio for headphones.

Anonymous 08/16/15 (Sun) 20:22:46 No.3150

>>3075

its also really easy to use mate with i3

Anonymous 08/16/15 (Sun) 20:25:59 No.3151

>>2187

i use i3 with a solarized dark theme, but i now added skuppy-xd to that with the shortcut $mod+m

It is awesome thanks for showing me!

Anonymous 08/17/15 (Mon) 12:36:56 No.3158

I haven't used a linux distro in a while. Just tried Kubuntu. KDE5 is fucking off da chain. Best alternative to Win10 which I left because they want to fuck your privacy.

Anonymous 09/21/15 (Mon) 11:51:49 No.3394

GNU+Linux VMware = slow, GNU+Linux guest, freezes host constantly -- freezes xfce4,kde4,plasma 5,cinnamon,openbox,gnome.

Windows VMware = normal speed, host almost never freezes

Windows > Gnu Linux

System specs

>Intel i5-3570k

>HD 4000 gpu

>8GB Ram

Your Gnu / Linux cannot provide gpu passthrough for GNU+Linux guests with KVM.

Linux is for servers, BSD is for servers, Windows and Mac OSX for desktop.

You'll never guess my tripcode

Anonymous 09/21/15 (Mon) 16:33:28 No.3397

>>2188

>i7-3770k

>but only 4gb of ram

Anonymous 01/30/16 (Sat) 18:04:21 No.4161

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>>2187

Please link me to your clean Conky script.

Anonymous 01/30/16 (Sat) 21:25:19 No.4163

>>3394

>Winblows

This was true in 2001, and 2004

Only a retard thinks Windows is still better in anyway except "meh gaymes!" in 2016.

>Linux can't into GPU Passthrough

Yes, yes it can

https://wiki.debian.org/VGAPassthrough

>Linux

>Servers

Windows is literally based around Microsoft's Server NT Kernel

>be retarded

>can't do shit with GNU cause need Winblows GUI

Anonymous 02/02/16 (Tue) 08:24:25 No.4174

>I hate cinnamon

Why? It's my favorite...

Anonymous 02/08/16 (Mon) 06:04:43 No.4204

>>2012

>GNOME 3

Absolutely horrible

>I hate Cinnamon

Cinnamon is good GNOME 3

>KDE is ugly

Fucking what? Of all the things to bash KDE for, being ugly is not one of them.

>i3 takes forever to configue

**haven't used i3 tbh but thinking of trying it soon

>no mention of xfce, MATE, lxde, or lxqt

Why not? They're great. LXQT in particular is exciting because it's a way to use QT without having to have all of the resource usage of KDE.

Anonymous 02/09/16 (Tue) 16:08:19 No.4208

>>4174

I love cinnamon too, it reminds me of mac os 7 with the sound effects turned on. I wish other desktop environments would provide options to set sounds for all the actions cinnamon does. Not to mention quadrant window snapping in addition to the side by side view, why isn't that standard in floating window managers by now?

Anonymous 02/10/16 (Wed) 05:10:20 No.4221

Awesomewm

Lua is easy as shit to script in so you can configure it fast. Not to mention there are dozens of awesome configs out there (just google).

Its fast and stable. After awesomewm every othe wm/de feels like bloated, counter-intuitive garbage.

All window management is done from the keyboard and you'll use your screen space much more efficiently.

Anonymous 02/13/16 (Sat) 14:06:59 No.4231

>>2012

Try TrinityDE (Essentially a good KDE3 fork) or XFCE.

Anonymous 02/29/16 (Mon) 14:08:46 No.4309

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>>2012

XFCE4, using MATE theme, with Faenza icons

Anonymous 03/02/16 (Wed) 07:19:59 No.4316

I use Enlightenment on Arch for a no-CLI-needed lazyass approach. Trinity is also good if you want something that just werks.

Anonymous 03/07/16 (Mon) 15:41:53 No.4332

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>>4309

AwesomeWM, using qutebrowser.