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by zeveb 2893 days ago
You really ought to give real Linux (or a non-macOS BSD) a try: it's remarkably friendly, and customisable. We're professionals; we need to adapt our tools to ourselves, and Linux affords one some very tempting capabilities for just that.

As an example, I use a tiling window manager; I have the same theme used by my WM, my console & my editor; my entire computing interface is as minimal and distraction-free as possible. I simply couldn't get it this clean on anything other than Linux or BSD.
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komali2 2893 days ago
Which window manager? Been thinking of leaving gnome+all the everything it comes with behind.
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zeveb 2892 days ago
I like StumpWM. It's a tiling window manager, which I've come to consider vital (I'll never go back to overlapping windows if I can help it). It's also written in Common Lisp, which is a powerful dynamic programming language. I like that I can easily extend my window manager on the fly (I've even been thinking of implementing a terminal within StumpWM, so I can get rid of my current terminal).

It's a little annoying that a lot of stuff assumes GNOME or KDE, but I'm able to get by.

I've heard good things about i3, dwm & exwm. The latter is written in elisp, of all things!

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mort96 2893 days ago
KDE Plasma is generally really solid in my opinion. I installed kubuntu-desktop on my xubuntu install yesterday, and it both looks pretty good and works really well. The whole KDE stack, with kwin instead of mutter and Qt instead of GTK, also feels a bit better engineered to me than the Gnome side of things.

Or, if you're feeling adventurous, i3wm is really nice. That's what I run on my laptop, which is my main programming computer, and I would never again consider running a floating window manager instead of a tiling one for programming.

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