After trying out Cosmic, Gnome,KDE Plasma, and Hyprland, I feel like plasma is the most usable for me coming from Windows. It solves the gripes I had about lack of customizability while still starting me off with a familiar homebar. I will be going back and forth with gnome for a while.

I really like gnome and the sliding desktops, and all the extensions seem to make it very customizable as well, but not directly like plasma, instead you mix and match (or make) extensions to get the look you want. (correct me if im wrong, I used it for a day)

Hyprland seems very nice for multitasking but the keyboard focus of the presets ive tried doesn’t really appeal to me, I like being able to just use my mouse sometimes.

Cosmic, is definitely an alpha and im interested to see what it becomes, wont be using it now.

  • houseofleft@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I use Cosmic and really like it- have used i3, Awesome and Gnome in the past for a while too, I really likes them.

    The most time I spent with a set up was Awesome + rofi, which I really enjoyed. I customised literally everything and spent hours tweaking stuff.

    That was super fun, but in all honesty my workflow is more or less:

    1. Open up a terminal (alacritty, tmux + fish shell + helix editor)
    2. Open up a browser (Firefox, have played with others but there’s always some quirk where I give up)
    3. That’s it.

    Honestly, all the tweaking is fun for me, but with my workflow I have like 0 requirements for anything fancy. Daily driving cosmic is going nicely for now, and seems to mostly get out of my way.