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KDE Plasma
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Has a file manager that provides a good balance between power and simplicity
Included file manager provides several icon, list and detail views to choose from along with features such as tabs, bookmarks, tagging, previews and metadata, network file access, bluetooth file transfers to/from devices and excellent removable storage integration while remaining fast and easy to use.
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Stability problems
Under certain conditions, most of KDE's components can be highly sensitive to race conditions, which leads to KDE applications frequently crashing, and, on rare occasion, kdeinit itself locking up.
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Highly flexible
There are many customization options and possibilities to tweak the desktop, including widgets.
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Perceived clunkyness and slowness
Compared to other options, KDE is still perceived slow. Especially, the desktop takes a few seconds to login. Mouse pointer can feel sluggish, or laggy, on older systems.
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Looks beautiful
The design of the three built-in desktop themes; Air, Breeze, and Oxygen, are very beautiful to some.
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HiDPI support is great
One can even synchronize the login screen to scale with the rest of the DE
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Adheres to standards
Standards adherence allows for interoperability and shared technology for X Window System desktops, with similar Wayland support being worked on. Applications not written with Plasma in mind work very well in Plasma as a result. The development team has also been instrumental in standard creation and adoption such as NETWM, X11 clipboard, icon themes, mimetype handling, application menu standardization, system tray protocols and notifications and more.
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Keyboard friendly
Nearly all actions can be driven with keyboard commands. Window management, including effects such as desktop overviews, can be triggered with a keyboard control (or mouse gesture) and some even support filtering results (such as windows shown) by typing. The KRunner tool (default keybinding: Alt+F2 or Alt+Space) provides searching local files, online sources, unit conversions, math and more all from a keyboard driven interface.
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Comes with a suite of powerful applications
Plasma Desktop generally comes packaged with a full set of applications to get users started, including a file manager (Dolphin), advanced file manager and browser (Konqueror), image and document viewers (Gwenview, Okular), the Calligra office suite, CD and DVD authoring (K3b) and dozens more. The desktop can be installed and used without these applications, but they add significant value for many people.
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Integrated advanced search
Plasma Desktop comes with an integration search system that makes it easy to find local files, emails, contacts, events and more. The file manager supports tagging and rating files as well as full-content searching and the KRunner command window and the Milou desktop widget makes searching for files, emails, applications and other content by name, subject, category, tag, fulltext, etc. very simple. It does this with essentially no noticeable interference with day-to-day usage of the computer, thanks to the scheduling built into the backend system (Baloo).
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Multi-device "convergence"
Plasma Desktop provides seamless "zero config" integration of your Android device with your laptop and desktop machines via KDE Connect. Phone calls, SMS messages, cross-device copy and paste, media remote control, cursor control and more are supported. The technology that Plasma Desktop is built on, simply called "Plasma", also provides interfaces for phones, tablets, netbooks, and media centers in addition to the desktop. These additional interfaces use the same underlying frameworks and therefore work well together and have a unified feel to them. They also support a common set of applications across them which adapt to the input methods and screen sizes.
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Great HiDPI support
Scales well with laptop and big home theater screen simultaneously.
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Bunch of coherent applications
What make plasma so nice is the galaxy of apps, sharing same look and feel, configuration and behaviour.
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KDE is an evolution on the classic desktop model
KDE 4 is a great evolution on the classic Win95/Gnome/XFCE approach. It's moving in innovative directions while respecting the classic metaphors.
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GPL, LGPL, MIT, X11, BSD
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AIO desktop environment
Programming Language:
mostly C++
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GNOME
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Clean UI
Every aspect of GNOME has been crafted to fit together as a harmonious whole, so that it offers a consistent and integrated experience.
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Longtime support is hard since every few years GNOME changes its own standards
Everytime something is complete GNOME breaks itself: Icon naming changes almost every 3 years : once gtk icons were named stock_edit then gtk-edit then edit-edit and currently edit-edit-symbolic App icons change also every few years currently they get renamed to an android like scheme eg: org.gnome.Photos.svg instead of gnome-photos.svg however this breaks all common standards esp. since filenames on linux are case sensitive. GNOMEShell extension also break on almost every release. Currently Gtk3 has been stabilized however they are already working on GTK4 and 5 so in the worst case your desktop will need to run and support 4 GTK-toolkits at the same time.
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Online account management
GNOME integrates with your online accounts, so that all your data can be accessed from the same place.
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Slow
GNOME desktop environment is kinda slow on some Linux distributions.
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Wayland support
Gnome is the first desktop environment that uses Wayland as default instead of X server. X server is only optional currently.
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Full screen start menu
This may be fine if your screen is really small, but on modern fullHD desktop it looks ugly and distracting. In addition to very ineffective display of items on screen - much more could be placed on one screen if there were less empty space around and between icons.
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Keyboard friendly
It's (mostly) usable without touching a mouse, so you can keep your hands on the keyboard. Shortcuts can be defined in the gnome setting. There are even more shortcuts available when using the gesetting or dconf tool, e.g. switch to desktop 5 to 9.
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Extensions can break whole Gnome desktop
Gnome extensions have a lot of freedom to customize the desktop, and it means that extensions can break your desktop leaving you unable to use your computer. Also extensions can significantly slow down whole desktop.
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Highly stable
Gnome isn't obviously devoid of flaws, but it's pretty stable - especially in comparison with the KDE Plasma Desktop, which can literally fall apart after installing upgrades (and show a considerable number of error messages) or for whatever reasons - after turning on the computer you can end up without (Plasma) desktop altogether, which is quite unproductive. It is also noteworthy that many other major desktop environments are based on Gnome, and among these are: Cinnamon, Pantheon and (now dead) Unity.
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You can't put icons on the desktop
You have to enable the ability to add icons and files onto the desktop with Tweaks that you have to install.
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Great for high dpi displays
Adjustable scaling factor makes it great for high-resolution laptops and far away TVs.
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Continuous customization and extension issues
They need to sort out their continuous customization and extension issues, which are why many people still prefer KDE or other Desktop environments.
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It just works
You don't ever "need" tweaks. Unless your device is too outdated, it just works out of the box. Touchscreen, 4k TV, anything just works.
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Poor 'drag and drop into application' capability
Difficult to drag and drop a file into an open application.
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Simple and easy to use
GNOME has been designed to make it simple and easy to use. Press a button to view your open windows, launch applications or check if you have new messages.
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You can't put icons on the desktop
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Powerful search
A powerful search feature lets you access all your work from one place.
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Some settings are not where the user would expect it
E.g. it is not possible to change the keyboard auto-repeat delay or rate from the usual All Setting > Keyboard like, for example, in Unity. Many settings are considered "tweaks" and require installing a separate utility to adjust. Further still, some settings are buried in a dconf database.
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Touchscreen friendly
It works well with any touchscreen-enabled system, including newer laptops, even to the point of including a well-designed on-screen keyboard.
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Made for touchscreens
It's very uncomfortable to use with a mouse and a keyboard.
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Does not get in the way
GNOME lets you do the things you want without getting in the way. It won't bother you or badger you with demands, and it has been designed to help you comfortably deal with notifications.
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Some GUI controls are much larger than on other desktops
This is wasting screen space on non-HiDPI monitors.
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Very productive
With a clean layout and well-thought keyboard shortcuts, Gnome is simply the best for people looking to be productive with their computer.
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Default alt-tab behaviour is cute but extremely annoying for fast keyboard users
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Easy theming
Changing the look (and feel) of Gnome Shell is easy, shell theme, icon, windows and graphical elements (gtk) individually for each user. Mostly it's installing some packages or unpacking some archive to a themes folder and using selecting the new theme in e.g. gnome-tweak-tool. There are a lot of really good themes on DeviantArt.
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Native Gnome dock isn't scalable
The native Gnome dock isn't scalable, which means if you want to change its size you have to download a customized theme for the shell and hope it has the appearance you want. Honestly again just like the icon issue it wastes way too much of the screen on high resolution monitors.
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Gnome-Tweak-Tool is great
Gnome may seem bland out of the box but, the Gnome-Tweak-Tool is awesome. The Gnome-Tweak-Tool allows for easy desktop tweaks and other control functionality, and that these features can be activated with just a click.
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Tightly coupled to its window manager
If you're looking to run an alternative window manager, like XMonad, you're pretty much out of luck.
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Adheres to standards
Allowing for interoperability and shared technology for X Window System desktops.
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Not truly tunable
Customization is very limited.
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Highly customisable
Gnome Extensions offers an easy way to extend the built-in functionality.
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Removes more features than it adds
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Beautiful interface
Very, very beautiful interface.
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Extension system is weakly integrated into the environment
Backward compatibility is not guaranteed and extensions seems like second class citizens in the GNOME environment.
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Great task manager
The GNOME Task Manager is great, showing all open processes with every needed detail. For each process you can see the amount of memory and processing power that it's using, along with the process priority.
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Terrible UX
It's like on macOS, you get stuck at every corner....
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Graphic apps 'feel smoother' on gnome than on KDE plasma
Graphics apps 'feel smoother' on gnome than on KDE plasma. Example: Gimp and inkscape, probably because they are developed in gtk+.
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Rather insane method of wallpaper slideshows
Most DEs and WMs allow the user to simply point to a directory, and use pictures from there. Gnome 3 requires the rather asinine idea of building an XML file to accomplish the same thing.
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Integrates with most Google Services
You can use your calendar, drive, contacts and most of Google services with Online Account option. You can show your Google Calendar events on the Gnome's default calendar app, Nautilus (Default file manager of GNOME) almost fully integrated with Google Drive and even you can read your PDF's with Evince (the default built-in PDF reader in GNOME).
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No support for fractional scaling
Unlike Qt, GTK has no support for it.
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Effective default workflow
Gnome is not very tweakable but its defaults are sane enough that you it is very usable out of the box. Especially if you like a keyboard driven workflow and an uncluttered interface. The lack of options and features makes it a distraction free and clean UI to focus on what matters.
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Depends too much on extensions to customize basic settings
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Great for minimalists
It may only do several things, but it's very good at each one of those things. You won't get lost in customization menus, and you certainly won't have an stability issues as long as your hardware is made within the last 10 years.
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Depends on systemd
Some people don't like systemd but it is part of most modern distros anyway.
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High resolution screens, multi monitor, content creation
If you depend on high resolution screens, multi monitor, or content creation programs you want Gnome.
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Has several dead userspace features that are supplemented by community supported extensions
Has several dead projects that are supplemented by community supported extensions. Unfortunately, the gnome updates often break these extensions. Example: GSConnect.
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All the major players in the Linux ecosystem have finally collated on Gnome
Red Hat default = Gnome Fedora default = Gnome Debian default = Gnome Ubuntu default = Gnome Opensuse default = Gnome This doesn't mean the others go away, it just means there is a colossal community and industry backing behind Gnome. The point whether or not it being technically the best option is now off table and irrelevant. It is now the de facto standard. Like it or not.
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Heavy-weight, PC unfriendly desktop
Heavy-weight on disk space, on package number, on dependencies, on CPU resources, on RAM, on GPU, with a style better tailored to mobiles.
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Hamburger Menus
If you use a Mouse you fell like a second class user.
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Sacrifices usability for one style
There's one style (adwaita) and that's the one supported style.
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Tons of extensions at extensions.gnome.org
You can add infinite customizations with extensions
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Bloated and energy-intensive
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Original idea
It's not another desktop experience based on "windows experience" . It's original. The creativity of developers is great.
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Icon scalability and sorting
The icons in the "apps view" area don't have any additional sizes, the current ones are much too large to be effective for the screen space they use. Also, there is no native way to sort them in Gnome, only a very limited extension. Which means you're pretty much always better off using the search bar if you can.
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Extensive
Can be customized by lots of add-ons and themes for gnome-shell.
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Deprecated
Is replaced by Gnome 40.
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Reall the only original and complete Desktop Environment
The Gnome-Shell paradigm is wildly different from Windows, and isn't all that much like OSX either - it's a different workflow that, if it appeals to you, is a dream to use. Every other DE is either like Windows, like OSX, or like OpenBox.
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Out of Date
Gnome 3 is out of date now that Gnome 40 exists. It's still great, but the new version's switch to GTK4 and improved (IMHO) UX make 3 feel obsolete.
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Now lighter than xfce
Gnome by default is slow. But after some tweaks, gnome becomes lightweight and also much faster than xfce. It is also more user-friendly.
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Shell-Style ≠Widget-Style
The GNOME-shell is unable to use the current GTK style for its interface thus making it hard to get a consistent user interface.
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Inconsistent desktop
As of GNOME3, some applications have ClientSideDecorations while other use normal Titlebars, this also affects usablity since both Decorations do different things if you left, right, or double click it. Same goes for Menubars. Some Apps follow the GlobalMenu in the GNOMEShell while others don't.
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Non-intuitive use paradigm
It doesn't feature an always-on dock and fixed amount of usable desktops, doesn't support tray icons for background programs. The main interaction with running programs bases on clicking and dragging (to a desktop) preview thumbnails.
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GPL
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Default Desktop Environment:
Gnome 43
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Simplified MATE
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Not fully translated
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Nice feel
It's more like Windows 8 but besides that, it looks great.
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UI isn't optimized for lower end pc/laptops
Super slow UI that could take 3-6 seconds to popup. Gnome was slow but UKUI was very sluggish in comparison.
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Stylish
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Looks like Windows 8
It just looks like Windows 8.
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GPL
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Console TDM
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Unmaintained
Console TDM has never been updated since 2015. You should instead use CDM, tbsm, or any other option because such an unmaintained program could lead to potential security issues. Like CTDM, tbsm can run Wayland sessions.
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Very lightweight
It doesn't require much more than a POSIX shell and dialog/Ncurses.
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No customization
Apart from changing the console colors there isn't much you can do.
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Very old
The display manager looks ancient and will look ancient due to the lack of customization.
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Entrance
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Does not need Systemd
So it can be used on other unix-like operating systems besides linux without the need for linux bindings.
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Edje is hard to master
EDJE *.edc files are CSS-Like code that is hard to master: https://www.enlightenment.org/_legacy_embed/edcref.html
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A Sandbox
Entrance is probably the most configurable and themeable display manager available.
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CDM
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Has almost no dependencies
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Bad documentation & install guidance
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Supports virtually any DE/WM
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Bad availability in distros
There is no CDM in distros repositories (only in AUR on arch) However you always can compile it from source.
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Very lightweight
Takes up almost no system resources.
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Curses-like interface
Very simple and minimalistic graphical interface.
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Qingy
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Ancient fossil dredged up from nearly a decade ago
Qingy doesn't appear to have updated since 2010. That's a long time in Internet years.
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Getty replacement
It is a getty replacement so it will not only replace your X11 login manager but also your getty.
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Not a display manager
Qingy is not a display manager - it is a getty replacement.
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Minimal
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Doesn't pickup special characters
For example ĂŸ or æ.
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Simple in use
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Not very customizable
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Very quick and responsive
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CLI-based
Very simple and minimalistic graphical interface.
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CLI Based
It's so much lightweight because CLI Based.
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Supports both X11 and Wayland
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Easy to use
Includes a shell login and Basic Wayland support.
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LightDM
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Beautiful interface
Some greeters such as the Unity Greeter look absolutely beautiful on LightDM.
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Not really lightweight
How lightweight it is depends on the used greeter, but they all require much more dependencies than other lightweight greeters like XDM or SLiM.
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Best balance
Best interoperability, best balance between functionality and bloat, simplicity and candy, not distribution or GUI-tied.
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nVidia driver and kernel woes
It's been on the decline lately where it's only stable under a very specific mix of kernel and nVidia drivers.
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Cross-desktop
LightDM is not tied to any distro or desktop enviornment. You can use it on literally any Linux GUI.
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High RAM usage
It uses more RAM than other light (xdm,slim) display managers which results in more overhead.
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Good for DEs without a display manager
If your Linux desktop does not offer a display manager, you should use LightDM.
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Poor/missing documentation
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Theme variety
There are a wide variety of themes available for LightDM, from console-like UIs to ones that utilize webkit2 to create flashy and dynamic login interfaces.
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Hard to configure
Lighted.conf doesn't even work.
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Autologin never worked
After 4 years of using LightDM, I never managed to make it autologin my user in the system and there are always problems with the graphics driver. Crashes too often and requires manual restarting which is dull. Not to mention the developers update it once in a leap-year.
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Feature creep
Most people don't need (or even know) all features of LightDM.
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Lightweight and fast
It's a lot more lightweight than the most common GTK or QT based login managers.
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By deault you can't choose desktop environments
by default you can't choose your sessions/desktops, however there are plenty of tutorials on the web to add a selection.
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Allows several seats
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Matured Software
XDM is not new, it has been in development since the 80s and is a very stable reliable DM.
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Flexibility
Very customizable and portable, although with not as advanced effects.
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Well organized and thorough documentation
Slim's documentation is well organized and detailed, every concept is thoroughly explained and it is very helpful for both advanced users and beginners.
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Very little consistency among different versions
There have been quite some changes that break the compatibility between Slim 2 and Slim 3. Even if you learned how to work with the Slim 2, you will find that Slim 3 requires re-training.
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A good starting point
Slim is minimal and that is a good thing if you want to start from there. It can be easily extended and even supports popular packages that are used in Laravel (like Illuminate\Database (eloquent)) for example.
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Dependency injection is too weak
It is not really dependency injection, but just a configurable container.
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REST based
REST fans will love the REST based architecture.
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Needs strong bases to create dependencies
The dependency container schema of Slim is one of the biggest PROS and CONS of the framework. It is true that this schema brings so much flexibility to add anything, but another thing that is true is that you need to have strong bases of patterns, and an extensive knowledge of your libraries to convert it into a Slim dependency.
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Supports tie-ins for Rack-like middleware
Rack is an interface used in Ruby frameworks used to group and order modules, which most of the time are Ruby classes, and specify between them. Slim uses a simple concept for it's middleware. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses it unifies the middleware into a single method call.
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Too minimal
While it's true that Slim is a microframework, it's still too minimal. When used for throwaway projects or simple prototypes, it's perfect. But in the long run, it becomes less and less useful and you end up in implementing a full custom framework in trying to tackle all the missing features.
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Useful classes
Contains classes for managing requests, responses, cookies, logging, views, HTTP caching, and more.
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Flexible
Slim doesn't demand that you stick to a fixed folder structure. As long as you load Slim the right way you can do anything from there the way you like it.
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Extremely lightweight
Paired with swoole it's a micro service powerhouse.
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Open source
The Slim Framework is open source and is released under the MIT public license
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Extremely customizable
You can add any dependency, package or class that you want to use as a contained dependency.
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Supports Php 5.3 and PHP 7
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Makes it easy to understand the way some abstract functions and classes are built
In Django most things are abstracted, you just call some function or class without knowing how they were built, but with Slim, you end up understanding the way some abstract functions and classes are built.
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Hooks for executing code at different points in its life-cycle
Slim supports code hooks for executing functions at different points in time during the application's lifecycle.
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Supports both X11 and Wayland
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It does not support some essential funtionality, like XDMCP
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SDDM can start each DE
Unlike GDM which is stubborn in many ways, SDDM can start both Wayland and X11 sessions and any matter of valid session type, even if it's something obscure like Windowmaker.
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Buggy and..
Missing suspend/hibernate/sleep shutdown buttons Needs to much clicks to switch user Missing proper keyboard control
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Security
It doesn't support XDMCP.
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Slow
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Recommended for Plasma 5 and LXQT
QML-based display manager. Successor to KDE4's KDM.
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Difficult to customize without KDE
SDDM-KCM only works for KDE.
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SDDM can provide full eyecandy
SDDM themes can include animated videos/gifs, background music/sounds, and any combination of the various QML animations.
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Does not support expired passwords
You can not force users to change passwords on login.
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No Bluetooth support on the Loginscreen
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Heavy
It's not very lightweight.
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Customizing is hard
Customizing this login manager is hard since you need to know QML very well.
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A bit bloated
It requires Qt which is a huge dependency compared to other login managers.
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Tied to Gnome
You basically have to use Gnome or one of its forks to use it properly.
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It just works
GDM is dull, but it just works, and it is highly stable. It's easy to switch between environments, and it integrates really well with Fedora or other Gnome Distros.
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Really hard to customize
You'll have to recompile Gnome's resource files in order just to change the login background.
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Can run Wayland sessions
GDM can start Wayland sessions, which is the default for recent GNOME versions.
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Con
Depends on GTK and its dependencies
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Always signs the GNOME keyring
Works with any desktop. SOome display managers such as SDDM don't open the GNOME keyring at login.
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Ugly UI
It is very simple, and you can't change the layout.
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Not so difficult to customize
You just have to know which files to edit, and you can do quite a lot.
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Bloated
As with anything Gnome, there's a level of inelegance to be expected when it comes to absolute performance. It's supposed to be a login manager, not something bespoke.
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