Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:43:21 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: <9nikhl-qb2.ln1@otis.foo> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:05:50 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d3cb8cbf2a0d0144e7449cfe2389f700"; logging-data="1361868"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Agtt+pgTMkHvAk9q92ZDIr3b7n43WSLI=" User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:NASJqhBBs0aZOfHa9Fv/NA+rwF0= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:68631 Groovy hepcat Allodoxaphobia was jivin' in comp.os.linux.misc on Fri, 6 Jun 2025 11:44 pm. It's a cool scene! Dig it. > On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 10:12:57 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote: >> >> So, what Desktop Environment/Window Manager do you use, and why? >> Also, what do you think your choice of environment has to offer that >> isn't found, or rarely found in others? > > Trinity (TDE) https://www.trinitydesktop.org/index.php > > Years ago I fell in love with KDE 3.5 and fell out of love with KDE > 4.0. > KDE 3.4 lives on in Trinity. I've been on it for over 15 years, Ditto. It's a traditional desktop, simple and straight forward, but configurable. That's one of the things that first attracted me to KDE, the ability to have it my way. But KDE 4 just never did it for me. And I've read that even if you disable all the extraneous crud, like wobbly windows and spinning cubes and crap, it doesn't significantly free up resources. > I have a revulsion to eye candy. Simple elegance is best. Too much whiz-bang crap and "shiny" makes me want to vom. Just for fun I run older hardware (386s, 486s, Pentiums, etc.), with older distros (Slackware 3.4, Debian 2.2, Debian 3), on which I usually use FVWM or FVWM2; simple, configurable and not resource hungry. -- ----- Dig the NEW and IMPROVED news sig!! ----- -------------- Shaggy was here! --------------- Ain't I'm a dawg!!