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

On 2025-06-11, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:42:25 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:43:21 +1000, Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood wrote:
 

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.

 
Actually, KDE Plasma is among the lightest-weight DEs around -- lighter
than GNOME.
 
Remember, it’s built on Qt, which is a toolkit with a wide variety of
application areas, including on resource-constrained embedded platforms.

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I don't recall my Fedora KDE spin having wobbly windows and spinning cubes
out of the box. I suppose that crap is there if you go looking for it. Ah,
there it is, a checkbox for wobbly windows way down in a configuration
menu. I don't see the spinning cube thing.

I used to have the wobbly windows and spinning cube.  One update stuffed
it up, can't remember why, and I think the functionality was moved to
KWin instead of Compiz, but I didn't really bother getting it working
after that.

After that I decided to go "back in time", aesthetically speaking.  I
like colour and simple, clearly defined geometry.  None of this fuzzy
flat design with muted pastels in a sea of low constrast grey
featureless tiles for me.