Options:

  • Desktop Environment
  • Tiling Window Manager
  • Neither
    • erpicht@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      Not a surprising answer for a user of Linux Mint Cinnamon, I would think. Tiling window managers intrigue me, however.

  • azron@lemmy.ml
    0·
    3 years ago

    I’ve used both for multiple years. Desktop environments make a lot of one off tasks easy and straight forward e.g.: set mouse acceleration, media keys configuration, suspend working properly etc etc. The list isn’t short but if you are comfortable with learning or with a lot of the ins and outs of Linux you’ll be fine duplicating the experience with a tiling window managers.

    I use i3 and ulauncher to replace the take at flow. With a bunch of stuff in my i3 config to make the other things start up and work the way I want. I don’t see switching back to a full on Desktop Environment again.

    You can also try both of heard people be very happy with regolith which combines i3 and gnome but I have limited experience there.