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I spend most of me waking hours inside a tmux session, often with multiple split panes, so I really should be at home in a tiling WM. But everytime I've tried t
by laumars 10y ago
I spend most of me waking hours inside a tmux session, often with multiple split panes, so I really should be at home in a tiling WM. But everytime I've tried to make the switch I get annoyed and switch back to KDE. I've tried several different WMs and even started to hack my own one together using WinGo as a template. But in the end I find KDE to be what I feel most at home with.
The killer feature for KDE is the "konsole" (KDE terminal) integration in their GUI tools. Their file manager (Dolphin) and text editors (Kwrite and Kate) have a CLI built in so I can leverage the best of both paradigms from a single interface. Couple that with Krunner (I know every DE and OS has a runner these days) and Yakuake (a Quake-style drop down terminal) and KDE is actually a surprisingly productive desktop environment even for people who are command line orientated or running on platforms with limited screen real estate (eg laptop screen).
But as much as we might intellectualise the productivity of different desktop environments and window managers, our personal preferences often just boil down to old habits. I've been using KDE since version 1 so when migrating to a tiling WM I was as much frustrated by having to rewrite muscle memory as I was by any personal preference with the UI design.
- mixedCase 10y agoI remember using KDE + bspwm for a short period of time before I decided to go without KDE. It required a couple special rules in the bspwm config but it worked just fine.