[arch-general] [OT] Favorite/best desktop in archlinux

[David C. Rankin]

On 11/06/2016 04:12 PM, Maykel Franco via arch-general wrote:
> Hi, what the best desktop envieronment for archlinux? Only is the question.
> 
> I like very much kde plasma but he used a lot of ram and sometimes it
> is very heavy. Do you think?
> 

  I agree with the remainder, the choice is yours. That said, I built
TDE (KDE3) for Arch for years after chakra stopped building kdemod3, and
that was (and still is) my all time favorite. .I've recently started
using Plasma, and while it is a behemoth, it is relatively well behaved
from a resources standpoint. Gnome, I thoroughly enjoyed gnome 2. My
experience with gnome 3 was much like my experience with KDE4.

  It all boils down to what do you need your desktop to do? Do you rely
on any of the apps unique to any one desktop? (e.g. I like kate/kwrite
and I like the tabbed interface to konsole) Were it not for those 3
apps, I could care less which desktop I use. I like fluxbox as a minimal
desktop (any of the boxtop desktops are pretty much the same -- sawfish
is a little too bare bones for me)

  The midlevel desktop goes to XFCE, capable, relatively full suite of
basic apps, but it too has experienced growing pains over the past two
years.

  Gnome or KDE - take your pick. Both are essentially a moving target at
this point. Both are more than capable and both provided just about all
you need built in.

  Best/Favorite is in the eye of the beholder...

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.