borzthewolf

Lol its clear that I know nothing beyond the DE . so basically do you choose your de based upon what the display manager supports?

I dont understand this at all. I mean I've heard of iceWM but know nothing about it. The screenshots I've seen, it looks super minimal, complex, any ugly, but I'm sure I'm missing so much info on how you can actually use it

Wow lots of info here, thanks! See, I know nothing about window or tiling managers and not necessarily know if I need to go that deep, but maybe! So the two more random desktops I'm interested in are probably cutefish and deepin oh and paperde, but I cannot find that on any distro so it must not be maintained. Sorta the same deal with cutefish, though I know it actually IS available. DDE is one I'm on the fence about. Just the bad security issues I've always read has kept me from deepin, but figure the environment is safer? Lol and again, it looks vastly different on each distro.

Sooo basically two things I dont understand. You said you can get any DE on any distro,but thats not true ime. I've searched numerous distros repos or packages and some distros had DEs that others did not. Also, why does it seem like so many desktops vary so much in appearance. How do I know what each looks like on each distro? Because I've found a lot of variance and I dont know enough about the inner workings of DEs lol thanks man

I have checked out screenshots of trinity and to me it looks sorta dated and weird... Unless you know of a distro that has a pretty version? Lol it is a different feel for sure

Never heard of this, I'll have to look into it and cde for that matter

The thing about budgie I've noticed from screenshots is that the environment looks vastly different on each distro that supports it. IMO solus looks way best, but at the moment solus is up in the sir lol

Thanks a lot!!! And any and tweaks to the environments can be done simply with the distros tools and settings or is there more to configuring appearance than that? Just because as I noticed. Two different distros could have a gnome desktop but look vastly different, sometimes almost like completely different desktops. Thats the part I dont quite understand.

Hmm I need to research windows managers more. I know nothing about them lol

I'm sorry, I should clarify, when I say clean I dont mean minimal, maybe sleek or stylish (but now gaudy) would have been better words

Fantastic resources! Thank you

Wtf??Gosh this Lemmy universe is so much different. Doesn't feel extremely micromanaged lol

Man I get stingy and always have to go for the nicer products, even if I dont need them lol I've been eyeing thinkpad, dell, anker, and pluggable docks mostly. There's a brand called wavlink too that has great deals but can seem to find much info on them