Linux DE/WMs showoff

Hello everyone! This is a post that you probably won't care about if you're not into these kind of stuff, but I felt like sharing anyway because it's cool to me and there are some people that might be interested on learning or seeing these kinds of setups.

This is DWM, the suckless window manager. I use this window manager most of the time on my Linux installation. Why? Since this is one of the "suckless" software, it's simplistic and has minimal footprint on my system. Which is perfect! Since I run Linux on a roll of toilet paper. Ugh. On another side, configuration to this window manager is done by recompiling the program, so if you're not literate in C this software is not for you most likely, but I haven't tinkered with it that much anyway and it still works fine. This is a must-have if you have low resources, it takes a while to learn the keybinds, but it's worh it I assure you.

BSPWM, the weird cousin to i3 if you ask me. I prefer this to be like my "eye-candy" window manager because I want to keep DWM simplistic enough. BSPWM is really cool too, and has a easier learning curve than the aforementioned window manager. The configuration is done through a shell script that is easy to understand for novice power users. I used to have BSPWM in my main rig, but I've mostly moved my workflow to DWM anyways. That doesn't mean I don't use it that much, because if I need to get that dopamine hit when I see my fancy but simple rice that I made to this, yeah it's really cool. Might not be much to you UNIX ricers but I really enjoy looking at it :^)

In this WM I use Jonaburg's Picom instead of xcompmgr, which I reserve for DWM. And I use polybar and rofi instead of the default dwmbar and dmenu. This is by far the most "modern" WM rig I've put together I think.

GNOME 41.2, probably the most controversial desktop environment out there (alongside KDE, which always had some controversy around it too lol).

When I had to choose which flavour of Manjaro I want to use, I chose to have the GNOME one because I really never gave it a shot and I wanted to see how it would perform and to see if I liked it. I've already used GNOME before (albeit a VERY trimmed down version of it) but I just felt that I haven't experienced the whole thing yet, so I've decided to install Manjaro GNOME on my computer replacing Garuda Linux (WHICH DECIDED TO BREAK RANDOMLY IN THE FIRST PLACE). So far, it is a solid desktop environment. People say stuff like "Oh, this is like for touch screens and such and like it's not the GNOME it used to be" but I can blow those arguments out of the water easily; First, you can customise it however the hell you want! I've already installed a couple of extensions to enhance the look of it, and even the preinstalled GNOME in Manjaro has a LOT of layouts to choose from. You can even choose to have a Windows-like environment on GNOME! This is all possible because the GNOME Shell is merely just a plugin to Mutter, so you could replace that with something else that fits your needs, and I love when software has that freedom! You can also use the official "GNOME Flashback" or the fork "MATE" if you want that experience back I guess. On the dark side, I don't use it too much and I use it when I want to see the beauty of it really, it doesn't perform as well as the other 2 WMs also. This is a common problem with GNOME and I will be honest and say; it's bloat. But still, it's a solid desktop environment for beginners and I recommend it if you are unsure of what DE to choose. The touch-like interface isn't as bad as Windows 8 at least :^)