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The sad thing is, it looks way more practical and tasteful than KDE5. I would say I miss nice DEs, but that's not true: i3 is way nicer than any DE has been, fo

The sad thing is, it looks way more practical and tasteful than KDE5. I would say I miss nice DEs, but that's not true: i3 is way nicer than any DE has been, for me.

baldfat 10y ago
i3 user here. I call it the best system for 2% of people, and the other 98% HATE it. One time I left it up and my wife had to use it when I wasn't home. Talk about a unfun conversation. BUT I still use most of the KDE programs. KDE is by far my favorite Desktop Environment (i3 to me is not a DE) and I find the macOS being my least favorite. KDE unfortunately had a license issue with Qt at first and was the reason why GNOME was actually founded. Then KDE became the brunt of community anger and that reached fever pitch at KDE 4.0 (That was pushed out by Distributions due to community excitement) KDE 4.8+ has been a great DE but people would still say it was bloated even though in reality it was the same size if not smaller then Gnome 2.x. I still use some KDE apps on Windows (Kate (now VS Code has taken over) digiKam and Okular (PDF viewer). The KDE on Windows also provides for Kritia (My favorite painting program) Here is a blog on the active project http://kfunk.org/2016/06/18/kde-on-windows-update/ http://kfunk.org/2016/06/18/kde-on-windows-update/.
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  Some KDE apps are nice, but I tend to find the UI to have too much bling for my tastes: it's distracting. But Konqurer and Krita are both excellent (although I use firefox), and I've heard good things about Kate (although I'm an Emacs user). As for i3, yeah. It's actually a really nice system: you can do almost anything by keyboard although you only need to know five shortcuts ($mod+d, $mod+h, $mod+v, $mod+shift+q, and $mod+shift+e respectively), and there are a few other handy ones ($mod+enter, $mod+<number>). it's a really clean, and it just feels good to use. But it's really confusing to those who don't know it. I had a friend who tried to use my computer once... that was fun to watch.
- sangnoir 10y ago
  > Then KDE became the brunt of community anger and that reached fever pitch at KDE 4.0 I'm a long-time KDE user and I actually like the plasma desktop. KDE 4.0 should never have been a public release -it was not ready, but KDE got through it. I'm not embarrassed to admit I felt some schadenfreude towards the Gnome 3 struggles
- Ezhik 10y ago
  I really long for a tiling wm with sane defaults. Even something as simple as volume buttons needed to be configured manually in i3wm, and after battling compositing for so long, I ended up just giving up and using GNOME.
  - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
    Well, yeah. They're WMs, not DEs. However, you can use i3 with gnome by launching gnome-session with the arg --session=i3. The instructions for setting up the DM to do this on Ubuntu can be found at http://blog.hugochinchilla.net/2013/03/using-gnome-3-with-i3-window-manager/ http://blog.hugochinchilla.net/2013/03/using-gnome-3-with-i3.... They're for Ubuntu, but it's fairly similar in other distros (although it varies by DM).
sevensor 10y ago
Right there with you. Even though I really want to like KDE because I find Qt an absolute pleasure to work with, I keep coming back to i3.
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  It's really nice. I can't believe I went so long before discovering it. I mean, honestly, what did I do without it?
Accacin 10y ago
Agree completely. i3 has been an eye opener for me. I'd recently got back into Linux after Windows 10 and I went with Arch and Gnome, but Gnome really wasn't doing it for me. Set up i3 and I haven't looked back. I love how fast switching windows is, and I like the fact I can nicely organise everything I want quickly. I have to use Windows at work and often find myself pressing Win + 1 to switch to my browser heh.
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  Yeah... And might I add how amazingly easy it is to configure? You write configuration, and it just works.

The sad thing is, it looks way more practical and tasteful than KDE5. I would say I miss nice DEs, but that's not true: i3 is way nicer than any DE has been, for me.

baldfat 10y ago

i3 user here. I call it the best system for 2% of people, and the other 98% HATE it. One time I left it up and my wife had to use it when I wasn't home. Talk about a unfun conversation. BUT I still use most of the KDE programs. KDE is by far my favorite Desktop Environment (i3 to me is not a DE) and I find the macOS being my least favorite. KDE unfortunately had a license issue with Qt at first and was the reason why GNOME was actually founded. Then KDE became the brunt of community anger and that reached fever pitch at KDE 4.0 (That was pushed out by Distributions due to community excitement) KDE 4.8+ has been a great DE but people would still say it was bloated even though in reality it was the same size if not smaller then Gnome 2.x. I still use some KDE apps on Windows (Kate (now VS Code has taken over) digiKam and Okular (PDF viewer). The KDE on Windows also provides for Kritia (My favorite painting program) Here is a blog on the active project http://kfunk.org/2016/06/18/kde-on-windows-update/ http://kfunk.org/2016/06/18/kde-on-windows-update/.

qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Some KDE apps are nice, but I tend to find the UI to have too much bling for my tastes: it's distracting. But Konqurer and Krita are both excellent (although I use firefox), and I've heard good things about Kate (although I'm an Emacs user). As for i3, yeah. It's actually a really nice system: you can do almost anything by keyboard although you only need to know five shortcuts ($mod+d, $mod+h, $mod+v, $mod+shift+q, and $mod+shift+e respectively), and there are a few other handy ones ($mod+enter, $mod+<number>). it's a really clean, and it just feels good to use. But it's really confusing to those who don't know it. I had a friend who tried to use my computer once... that was fun to watch.
sangnoir 10y ago
> Then KDE became the brunt of community anger and that reached fever pitch at KDE 4.0 I'm a long-time KDE user and I actually like the plasma desktop. KDE 4.0 should never have been a public release -it was not ready, but KDE got through it. I'm not embarrassed to admit I felt some schadenfreude towards the Gnome 3 struggles
Ezhik 10y ago
I really long for a tiling wm with sane defaults. Even something as simple as volume buttons needed to be configured manually in i3wm, and after battling compositing for so long, I ended up just giving up and using GNOME.
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  Well, yeah. They're WMs, not DEs. However, you can use i3 with gnome by launching gnome-session with the arg --session=i3. The instructions for setting up the DM to do this on Ubuntu can be found at http://blog.hugochinchilla.net/2013/03/using-gnome-3-with-i3-window-manager/ http://blog.hugochinchilla.net/2013/03/using-gnome-3-with-i3.... They're for Ubuntu, but it's fairly similar in other distros (although it varies by DM).

sevensor 10y ago

Right there with you. Even though I really want to like KDE because I find Qt an absolute pleasure to work with, I keep coming back to i3.

qwertyuiop924 10y ago
It's really nice. I can't believe I went so long before discovering it. I mean, honestly, what did I do without it?

Accacin 10y ago

Agree completely. i3 has been an eye opener for me. I'd recently got back into Linux after Windows 10 and I went with Arch and Gnome, but Gnome really wasn't doing it for me. Set up i3 and I haven't looked back. I love how fast switching windows is, and I like the fact I can nicely organise everything I want quickly. I have to use Windows at work and often find myself pressing Win + 1 to switch to my browser heh.

qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Yeah... And might I add how amazingly easy it is to configure? You write configuration, and it just works.