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i prefer the one that stays out of my way.
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It's kinda funny how whole distros are designed to "look and act like Windows" for the benefit of those coming to Linux from Redmond's OS. I was absolutely the opposite! When I dumped Windows for Linux, I wanted something as totally different from Windows as possible, something completely new to explore. My Xfce desktop can "look like" pretty much anything I want it to, panels, icons, docks, applets and widgets anywhere I want them, as many or as few as I want. It turns out I like a spacious, uncluttered desktop with no icons except six launchers on a panel, a weather applet, and an analog clock applet. Minimal, uncluttered, clean, and fast.
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I like that the thread includes a post about "Unofficial Desktop Environments" (post #5) and another one about "Alternative Window Manager Environments" (post #6). It's kind of like it's possible to come up with your own unofficial 'Buntu flavour.
Further down, towards the end of the "Tips and Tricks" post (post #8), there's a note that begins with the following:
I found that same setup option in Kubuntu 18.04, so that's what I used here. Later, I added Openbox, so I have a Kubuntu 18.04 installation where I can log into either KDE Plasma or Openbox sessions. Very nice. I do use some KDE apps from within Openbox.Vanilla Ubuntu also offers an option called "Minimal Installation" on its setup screen.
Also, the "Frequently Asked Questions" post (post #7) is definitely worth taking a look at. One part that caught my eye:
Some related info I found in this week's DistroWatch Weekly:What WMs will be available when Wayland replaces X.org?
Checking for Wayland and Wayland applications
Looking through windows asks: Is there a way to tell whether the desktop environment I am currently using is running on Wayland or not? And is it possible to detect if my desktop application is using Wayland or XWayland?
DistroWatch answers: Yes, there are tools for detecting whether your current desktop is running on a Wayland or X.Org session. Perhaps the easiest way you can check this is by opening a virtual terminal and running the following command. This should work on most Linux distributions:
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
The above command prints out the value of the XDG_SESSION_TYPE variable. The command should print either "x11" on your terminal, indicating your desktop session is running on X.Org, or "wayland" if you have signed into a Wayland session.
To see if one of your desktop applications is running as a pure Wayland program, or under either X.Org or XWayland, you can run a command line tool called xprop, which is short for "X properties". Running xprop will cause your mouse cursor to turn into a cross. The next window you click on will cause xprop to display the information it can find on that application in your terminal. Clicking on a Wayland program should not result in xprop displaying any information. Clicking in a program running in X.Org/XWayland mode will display the program's icon, process name and window identity information.
+1 for kubuntu. Highly versatile and resource usage is pretty reasonable.
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