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Im gonna get a new laptop soon and on my old laptop I want to install linux (cant do that on my main laptop because Im a windows dev at the moment).

I am not new to linux and have used 3 major ubuntu versions and it was all trouble, autoremoving files after update etc.
So I am planning to go Manjaro but which desktop environment shall I use? I've heard great things about i3 and Cinnamon. Gnome is not something I liked in Ubuntu.

Which desktop environment do you use, why and how did you make the choice?

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  • 1
    6y
    Linux Mint
  • 1
    6y
    Manjaro is a wonderful choice... I'd go with Deepin if you want it pretty, GNOME is always good but a bit clunky in my opinion, Cinnamon is straight forward and not too shiny and KDE is somewhere in-between.

    Go with what you like best from the screenshots as it is very easy to change WMs in Manjaro
  • 0
    6y
    @Lucky-Loek what I saw was that manjaro has a kernel switcher where Ubuntu already deletes my files after a small update. I dont mind reinstalling my pc on a yearly basis, but it breaking every weekend is not acceptable for me
  • 0
    6y
    @Lucky-Loek I'd have to disagree because Manjaro is quite well managed through the pacman package manager. Never had any bleeding-edge software installed on my laptop for over a year of daily usage. This applies if you set it up to only install stable software.
  • 0
    6y
    @SauceBoss thats why I will be using it on my old laptop... Although its mainly because Im a windows dev.
  • 1
    6y
    I like i3wm. I didn’t realize how much I hated GUIs until trying out a tiling window manager. It’s just incredibly responsive, and anything else just feels slow. I mostly live inside the command line though.
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