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KDE is now my favorite desktop

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892 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 12:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.3s | source
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christophilus ◴[18 Sep 25 13:23 UTC] No.45289397[source]▶
I just find it ugly vs Gnome or Mac. Inconsistent padding, font sizes, colors. Admittedly, this was maybe 5 years ago. Has that improved?

These days, I daily drive Niri and love it. I love the workflow of a scrolling WM. I love that I can configure it via a single text file in the standard configuration directory, I love how lightweight it is. It’s just about perfect for me.

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tuananh ◴[18 Sep 25 13:39 UTC] No.45289563[source]▶
One day, I'm going to try niri. I'm just too lazy to migrate my i3 setup right now :D
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vladvasiliu ◴[18 Sep 25 13:51 UTC] No.45289711[source]▶
What's special about niri? Asking as a happy user of i3 for... I can't remember how long. It's one of the few pieces of software I don't have to think about, it just gets out of my way.

Actually, the only situations where I think about it is when I'm driving a mac or a win and the window management gets on my nerves, although I'm generally a pretty chill guy.

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1. pluc ◴[18 Sep 25 14:50 UTC] No.45290422[source]▶
i3 is really hard to move on from. Everything is the app and configuration you want since it doesn't have traditional "desktop" suite of apps, so by design it is literally built for your exact wants and needs. Same goes for fluxbox/openbox setups imo