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[–] penquin@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let me cut the debate for a lot of people, the best desktop is what YOU like and works for you. Now relax.

[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The fact that there are so many well functioning options for a DE that this can be an argument, is such a great thing.

[–] Dendr0@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

At least it's not one of those stupid "reaction face" thumbnails. A clickbait title is easy enough to parse as "not worth my time" but those punchable face thumbnails? Fuck me, the person that started that trend needs to find the nearest running belt sander and start licking.

[–] schwim@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I appreciate titles that let you know you don't need to waste time watching it.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Is it certified best though?

[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Come try our pizza, it's #1 in the country

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Come try our pizza, it’s #1 in the country

  • Country is Uzbekistan.
[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You know, ... I use PaperWM. I have no idea what those overlapping windows are .. which makes it THE BEST LINUX DESKTOP for me

[–] OGMudBoi@lemmy.today 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just discovered PaperWM a few weeks ago and I'm hooked. I can't switch away from Gnome unless another tiling scrolling WM beats it. I hope someone makes a version of it for Cosmic.

[–] kazaika@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I heard the wayland compositor niri is inspired by paperwm, fyi. Also I doubt that cosmic will be very extendable when it releases, since most components are rewritten in rust and compiled, thus unless they specifically add some sort of scripting support extensions wont happen as easily as on gnome