Not counting the Steam Deck, since KDE isn’t actually turned on while you’re running games.
Normally I’m a Gnome guy, but I’m building a tiny low power portable computer and wanting to keep resource utilization low, so I’m investigating other options.
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KDE. It doesn’t get in the way.
KDE all the way.
KDE currently. Modern GNOME drives me somewhat insane - too “streamlined”. I used WindowMaker for a long time and somewhat miss it, but I’ve had problems with compatibility with some software (Steam).
KDE because I want a setup that just works.
Once I touched kde, It’s always kde.
i3wm for me, no DE. I do like KDE when I run a DE though.
Tried XFCE, KDE and GNOME but settled on GNOME.
XFCE struggled with window management especially when gaming. KDE is too messy and inconsistent. GNOME is just easy, and my wife can use it without asking questions.
not a de, i use hyprland.
@sambeastie@lemmy.world Hyprland, but technically it’s a tiling window manager and Wayland compositor.
Been hearing a lot about Hyprland, will probably check it out even if I don’t end up using it on this build.
I use XFCE mainly because I’m running older hardware. But I really do like it. I have been wanting to try out window managers but have just been too lazy… 😂
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Sway mixed with KDE,
games don’t really like it and Pipewire doesn’t work for video recording for some reason (it has to do with the KDE xdg-desktop-portal) but it’s a small price to pay for salvation I guess.I know Sway is a window manager, not a DE - but KDE applications and services seem to fill the gaps.
They’re not necessary, but you won’t catch me dead with a GTK file chooser popup open, and I haven’t figured out how to set up Ranger to replace Dolphin (nor do I really want to).Take a look at Hyprland, they have an xdg-desktop-portal implementation that apparently works with that stuff. https://github.com/hyprwm/xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland https://www.hyprland.org/
maybe something like xfce or a tiling window manager would have the lowest recurce cost
Xfce of course!
No DE just swaywm, I think you can benefit from window managers like i3 or sway for low resource utilization
