Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

Groovy hepcat Allodoxaphobia was jivin' in comp.os.linux.misc on Fri, 6
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On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 10:12:57 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

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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.

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