On 11/06/2016 04:12 PM, Maykel Franco via arch-general wrote: > Hi, what the best desktop envieronment for archlinux? Only is the question. > > I like very much kde plasma but he used a lot of ram and sometimes it > is very heavy. Do you think? > I agree with the remainder, the choice is yours. That said, I built TDE (KDE3) for Arch for years after chakra stopped building kdemod3, and that was (and still is) my all time favorite. .I've recently started using Plasma, and while it is a behemoth, it is relatively well behaved from a resources standpoint. Gnome, I thoroughly enjoyed gnome 2. My experience with gnome 3 was much like my experience with KDE4. It all boils down to what do you need your desktop to do? Do you rely on any of the apps unique to any one desktop? (e.g. I like kate/kwrite and I like the tabbed interface to konsole) Were it not for those 3 apps, I could care less which desktop I use. I like fluxbox as a minimal desktop (any of the boxtop desktops are pretty much the same -- sawfish is a little too bare bones for me) The midlevel desktop goes to XFCE, capable, relatively full suite of basic apps, but it too has experienced growing pains over the past two years. Gnome or KDE - take your pick. Both are essentially a moving target at this point. Both are more than capable and both provided just about all you need built in. Best/Favorite is in the eye of the beholder... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
