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What DEs are people using? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by ABeeinSpace@lemmy.world to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml
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I wanted to get a feel for everyone’s thoughts on desktop environments (or window managers if you don’t use a DE). I’m new to Lemmy, so apologies if this is too low-effort a post.

Personally I’m running KDE on my main computer, but I have an Arch virtual machine I use for more experimentation. That VM has seen KDE, i3, and will probably see hyprland at some point soon

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[–] fox@vlemmy.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

long time i3 user, now switched to sway

[–] ABeeinSpace@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve seen people mention Sway every once in a while. What’s the benefit over i3 if you don’t mind me asking?

[–] fox@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

it comes down to wayland, i3 only supports Xorg, sway only supports wayland.

as far as features goes sway was built to be pretty much a drop in replacement for i3 with a few improvements.