I have tried out Gnome, KDE, Lxqt and Xfce on a regular desktop and all of them feel nice. I haven’t tried many DE’s on a laptop.
Are there any particular DE’s you like on a laptop, because of things like power consumption and efficiency that would not come normally into consideration for a desktop?

  • konodas@feddit.de
    5·
    1 year ago

    Tiling window managers like i3 are imho nice for laptops, since they do not waste any space and can be easily controlled via keyboard. Takes a while to get used to them, however.

    • snauth
      3·
      1 year ago

      i3wm on my laptop, light on resources, keyboard-driven saves screen estate (no window decorations), and picom makes it easy on the eyes (rounded corners, shadows). If you prefer wayland, sway (and swayfx) is the way.

      • Aarkon@feddit.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        +1 for Sway. Discovered it a year and a half ago, put it on my laptop, then on my desktop as well. Not gotten into how to really configure it to fit my needs or so, but I’m quite happy with the out of the box experience.

        Only downside is the lack of hardware acceleration for the GUI.

    • klz@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m the opposite. I only use tiling on desktop. When using screens under 4k a simple left/right split is all I feel which gnome can do out of the box.