I got rid of my window from my secondary partition(gaming addiction) and now I have a 128 GB m.d. i have been running Linux mint for most of my Linux experience but want to try out something out side the traditional windows setup

I have tried those setups

  • Linux mint xfce
  • Linux mint cinnamon
  • fedora workstation(gnome)
  • fedora silverblue(gnome immutable)
  • fedora kde
  • majaro cinnamon

I would hope for sometimes were the learning curve isn’t too extreme for me(i3 was too much)

  • talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 months ago

    You don’t need to change distro in order to change desktop environment: just install gnome/kde/whatever if you want to give different ones a spin (you don’t need to uninstall your current desktop environment either - you can have multiple ones and choose which one to use when you login)

  • fluxx@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    You can try Niri - it is a tiling, scrollable wm, a lot easier to use than i3, I’d say half way between i3 and a full de.

    • Pumpkin Escobar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      +1 here. I always felt some draw to a tiling or scrolling window manager but they were always a lot of work to set up and I never quite clicked with one. Niri with Dank Material Shell is pretty amazing.

  • eta@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I’d say PopOS with the relatively new Cosmic Desktop could be something interesting for you to try of you don’t really want to go into configurations that much. It has floating and tiling windows that you can switch easily.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
    1·
    2 months ago

    If you want to go out there, tiling window managers are neat. I want to try hyprland at some point as well.

  • zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev
    1·
    2 months ago

    If you want to break out of the windows mold, tiling windows managers are where its at. You’ve already explored that route with i3, and there are other alternatives, but they all have a bit of a learning curve unfortunately. hyprland might be worth a try. I’ve only dabbled but I did remember it being a bit more beginner friendly than i3. But be prepared to be confused, read a bunch of forum posts and edit config files for a bit.

  • Fecundpossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    I’m currently running CachyOS, where I installed Hyprland and ML4W dot files (basically a well refined set of config files for Hyprland) alongside KDE Plasma. ML4W (MyLinux4Work) has great YouTube videos detailing their installation process.

    Hyprland, like i3, is pretty amazing to use once you get used to it, but sometimes it can break, so having the option of rock solid KDE right at the login screen is a nice bit of insurance.

    CachyOS is based on Arch, so you’ll need to get cozy with updating and installing software, both from the repository and flatpak, via the terminal. If you’re not already comfortable with that, it’s a great opportunity to learn.