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.

  • nogrub@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    maybe something like xfce or a tiling window manager would have the lowest recurce cost

  • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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).

  • Lumbercrack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Hyprland + waybar and bemenu. Not truly a DE, but I love the look and the minimalism and I like to do things in the CLI anyway.

  • Jerusalem Spider-Man@lemdro.idEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’m not even sure.

    Whatever comes with mint? I had a hard drive die, and my buddy hooked me up when I realized I couldn’t read the windows key on the sticker any more. He was going to do some kind of fuckery to let me keep 7 despite that, but he’d been talking about Linux for a few years, so I asked what he thought about that.

    He asked me a few questions, about what kind of programs I need to use, and when none of them were a pain in the ass for an idiot like me to deal with, he set it up for me. Told me it was mint, helped me set things up where they look nice and made sure I have what I need. Haven’t fucked with anything since, and that was about two years ago.