I have tried #Plasma6 on my #Fedora laptop. Seems all great, but I reverted back to #GNOME. I prefer the simplicity of GNOME. Yes, you can keep Plasma simple as well, but I am too tempted to tinker with all the possibilities there. Looking forward to try out #COSMIC deskop one day, though. But GNOME has been my daily driver (on my personal laptop) for more than ten years and I keep it pretty much in its vanilla config. Most of my work is done in the terminal anyway.
@ferki i used to use xmonad as well, as well as other tiling and non tilign WMs, but then i found myself in the rabbit hole to configure all of them all the time. i came to the conclusion that i only need to configure my tmux and optimize my tmux workflows (e.g. fzf integration, ...), because it is the common ground I have (personal Linux laptop, work macBook and also available on all the remote servers where i SSH), so the DE or WM is only secondary :-)
@snonux Yeah, that rabbit hole is real, though with both i3 and xmonad I only had to invest in the initial setup, then I could afford not to think about it for years.
I guess that's because I want a minimal approach with least amount of distractions and most amount of screen pixels for whatever I'm focusing on at the moment ^^
Since I spend 90+% of my attention in terminals, that's where I spend most of my optimization effort, and the DE/WM itself is just an incidental accessory for me too.
@ferki do you have a large monitor? i found that the tiling window managers don't work well with them. i end up with too much screen real estate and the windows placed at odd positions. (32" screen)
@snonux I mostly used only the builtin display of my laptops, and I now have a 24″ external one for my business. It's important for me to have the same (FHD) resolution, so my mental workflow is independent of which screens I'm using.
My window tiling approach is either the window gets full screen, or the WM distributes windows in an even grid keeping window sizes close to the aspect ratio of my screen (with a rarely used toggle to prefer horizontal or vertical split for the first split).
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