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KDE is now my favorite desktop

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892 points todsacerdoti | 3 comments | 18 Sep 25 12:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.618s | source
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ekjhgkejhgk ◴[18 Sep 25 19:32 UTC] No.45293951[source]▶
I have a terribly uninformed question. Ive been using i3wm ever since I learned it exists. Ive always had old machines and used to run Lubuntu, and at some point moved to i3wm. Its super fast and light which is what I care about the most.

I dont feel like Im missing anything, but then again a lot of people dont know theyre missing things which they cant imagine (before cars if youd ask people what they wanted, they wouldve said faster horses, etc etc).

So: What am I missing by using i3wm instead of for example Gnome or KDE? I dont care about pretty and shiny and animations. What else? Surely the whole holabalooba cant all be about pretty drawings and animations...?

(Sure, I probably would be able to find out by myself by trying these things but... since my starting point is the belief that Im not missing something, why would I be looking at these things...?

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1. wkat4242 ◴[19 Sep 25 01:58 UTC] No.45297188[source]▶
With KDE you get a lot more than just a window manager. And i3/sway have a very specific usecase and target audience.

By the way I've heard some people combine i3 with KDE, using i3 instead of KWin (which is its window manager component)

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2. ekjhgkejhgk ◴[19 Sep 25 07:06 UTC] No.45298744[source]▶
Id never heard of Sway. From the page, am I right in understanding that i3 is for X11 and Sway is for Wayland?
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3. OscarDC ◴[19 Sep 25 11:44 UTC] No.45300485[source]▶
Yes basically, it's not the same dev yet sway is heavily inspired by i3 and works with i3 config files. As you wrote i3 is x11-only and sway is wayland.